“The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.” – Mark Doty, “Don’t They Know?”
“Art is literacy of the heart.” – Elliot Eisner
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle
“Let the beauty we love be what we do.” – Rumi
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.” – Picasso
“Healthy perfectionism comes out of a desire for wholeness and fullness, the fundamental human need for individuation and spiritual growth.” – Carl Jung
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a woman can be, she must be.” – Abraham Maslow
“I paint in order not to cry.” – Paul Klee
“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to creative.” – Nicole Malebranche
“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.” -Michelangelo
“Still – in a way – nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” – Georgia O’Keefe
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