Inspiration

"Art? You just do it...." -Martin Ritt

It is never too late to be what you might have been -George Elliot

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change -Alfred, Lord Tennison

All I need is the air that I breathe and my friends and family to believe in me -Trick Turner

It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise -Nancy Thayer

There's no taking trout with dry breeches -Miguel De Cervantes

God's gift to me is my potential. My gift back to God is what I do with that potential -John C. Maxwell

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for -Maureen Dowd

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live -JoHann Wolfgang von Goethe

Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have -Doris Mortman

When someone shows you who they are, believe them... the first time -Maya Angelou

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved -George Elliot

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time -Calvin and Hobbes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -Martin Luther King

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy -Benjamin Franklin

I hope with all my heart there is painting in heaven -Corot

A bird does not sing because he has an answer, a bird sings because he has a song -Joan Walsh Anglund

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart -Vincent Van Gogh

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still -Chinese Proverb

The greatest essentials of life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for -Thomas Chalmers

Cultivate your garden... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony -Will Dumont

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself -Henry Ward Beecher

Plunge boldly into the thick of life! -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dream the impossible dream -Joe Darian

Faith, Trust, and Pixiedust -Tinkerbell

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness... -Arnold Lobel

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks... - Tom Petty

I guess when all is said and done you are who you believe you are... and that should be good enough for everyone else... - Susan Tamol

Even in Kyoto, I miss Kyoto... when the cuckoo sings... -The little book of Haiku

Don't count the days, make the days count... - Ed Agresta

There's a time when what you're creating and the environment you're creating it in come together... - Grace Hartigan

Not all who wander are lost... J.R.R.Tolkien

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain

Love is like a warm gun... on a cold night... yeah, ain't that a bitch..... -Aerosmith
This one is for Keith, a good friend of mine who left us in 1989 as the result of a warm gun...... on a cold night in December. This year will make 19 years that he's been gone, and I can still hear his laugh.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. -Unknown

Know yourself... Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -Ann Landers

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. -Sydney Smith

There is only one true inner voice. Trust it. -Gloria Steinem

The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -Ivy Baker Priest

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend. -Albert Camus

Wishes, on their way to coming true, will not be rushed. -Arnold Lobel

Most roads lead men homewards, my road leads me forth. -John Edward Masefield

A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -Eeyore

A new year is a clean slate, a chance to suck in your breath, decide all is not lost, and give yourself another chance. -Sarah Overstreet

Such a muddy line between the things you want... and the things you have to do. -Sheryl Crow

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. -Jack Nicholson

There are more fools in the world than there are people -Heinrich Heime

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. -George Tooker

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. -Janet Long

Cats regard people as warm blooded furniture. -Jacquelyn Mitchard

You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again. -Bonnie Prudden

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting. -Henri Matisse

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. -John Ruskin

A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being. -Thomas Moore

The key is to live simply. -Ed Begley, Jr.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he choose to be or not. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the artist, art is a verb. -Art & Fear

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. -Oscar Wilde

I don't think so much that I became an artist, I think I have always been one. -Mike Jones

Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind. - Dr. Seuss