Celebrate...

Celebrate the little wins, no matter how small.

Create them...

Don't make choices. Create them.

Pine-tree multitudes...

If one pine were placed in a town square, what admiration it would excite! Yet who is conscious of the pine-tree multitudes in the free woods, though open to everybody? - John Muir

The aim of every artist...

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner (1897-1962), Interview, 1958

Art is...

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Happiness...

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -Storm Jameson

Nature...

Mother Nature is saying "Come out and play".

Giving...

No one has ever become poor by giving. -Anne Frank

Painting is...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. - Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

Creativity is...

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle'

Art is not...

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Charity...

In charity there is no excess. -Sir Francis Bacon

Your health...

It doesn't matter how inspired your work is if you're not healthy.

A true photograph...

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. - Ansel Adams

What you do...

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cocoa bean...

In Mayan times, the cocoa bean was used as currency and considered to be worth more than gold dust.

What seems impossible...

Do what seems impossible. Then do more of it.