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Quote of the Day - January 29, 2008

  • Jan. 29th, 2008 at 8:27 AM
blurrysteve
"Art - especially the discipline of drawing - along with philosophy, history, and literature helps us interpret our experiences visually, emotionally, and aesthetically. For the visual artist, drawing is the very core of interpreting our experiences. It speaks in a voice like no other art form... It engages us on vital emotional, intellectual, and spiritual levels. Drawing can turn fragile material into conceptual strength... It extends both mind and spirit by promoting a deep respect for looking and thinking. It is the most delectable of all the arts." - Teel Sale & Claudia Betti from their book Drawing: A Contemporary Approach (6th Edition)

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Quote of the Day - January 28, 2008

  • Jan. 28th, 2008 at 11:23 PM
canadagoose
"Drawing is a complex, energetic, and ever-contemporary activity. It serves a variety of purposes: from accurate description to informal notation; from social commentary to playful, inventive meandering; from psychological revelation to dramatic impact... Drawing provides common ground for communication; it offers us a dialogue with ourselves and with other, the viewers." - Teel Sale & Claudia Betti from their book Drawing: A Contemporary Approach (6th Edition)

"Drawing is all." - Alberto Giacometti

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Quote of the Day - January 14, 2008

  • Jan. 14th, 2008 at 1:52 AM
steveleepainting
"On every level - as individuals, and as members of a family, a community, a nation, and a planet - the most mischievous troublemakers we face are anger and egoism. The kind of egoism I refer to here is not just a sense of I, but an exaggerated self-centeredness. No one claims to feel happy while being angry. As long as anger dominates our disposition, there is no possibility of lasting happiness. In order to achieve peace, tranquility, and real friendship, we must minimize anger and cultivate kindness and a warm heart." - the Dalai Lama, from his book "How to Practice The Way to a Meaningful Life"

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Quote of the Day - January 13, 2008

  • Jan. 13th, 2008 at 7:08 PM
steveleecloser
"You are a system of Light, as are all beings. The frequency of your Light depends upon your consciousness. When you shift the level of your consciousness, you shift the frequency of your Light. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you, for example, rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light. If you choose to feel affection, or kinship, with a person rather than distance or coldness, you shift the frequency of your Light." - Gary Zukav, from his book "The Seat of the Soul"

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Quote of the Day - January 12, 2008

  • Jan. 12th, 2008 at 2:15 PM
blurrysteve
"I travel to many places around the world, and whenever I speak to people, I do so with the feeling that I am a member of their own family. Although we may be meeting for the first time, I accept everyone as a friend. In truth, we already know one another, profoundly, as human beings who share the same basic goals: We all seek happiness and do not want suffering." - the Dalai Lama, from his book "How to Practice The Way to a Meaningful Life"

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Quote of the Day - January 11, 2008

  • Jan. 11th, 2008 at 9:22 PM
steveleecloser
"Adult human beings need kindness too. If someone greets me with a nice smile, and expresses a genuinely friendly attitude, I appreciate it very much. Though I might not know that person or understand their language, they instantly gladden my heart. On the other hand, if kindness is lacking, even in someone from my own culture whom I have known for many years, I feel it. Kindness and love, a real sense of brotherhood and sisterhood, these are very precious. They make community possible and thus are crucial in society." - the Dalai Lama from his book "How to Practice the Way to a Meaningful Life"

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Quote of the Day - January 3, 2008

  • Jan. 3rd, 2008 at 7:49 PM
steveleecloser
"A person that needs to learn the lessons of trust, for example, will experience the distrust of others. This distrust will create misunderstandings, an these will lead to tensions and unpleasant experiences. A five-sensory human will continue to experience the unpleasantnesses that result from his or her distrust of others until, in this lifetime or another, he or she realizes through interactions with others the source of these unpleasantnesses and takes steps to change it." - Gary Zukav, from his book "The Seat of the Soul"

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Quote of the Day - January 2, 2008

  • Jan. 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 AM
steveleecloser
"A person that needs to learn the lessons of trust, for example, will experience the distrust of others. This distrust will create misunderstandings, an these will lead to tensions and unpleasant experiences. A five-sensory human will continue to experience the unpleasantnesses that result from his or her distrust of others until, in this lifetime or another, he or she realizes through interactions with others the source of these unpleasantnesses and takes steps to change it." - Gary Zukav, from his book "The Seat of the Soul"

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Quote of the Day - January 1, 2008

  • Jan. 1st, 2008 at 7:45 PM
steveleecloser
"Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Impatience is the desire to have your needs met first. When your needs are taken care of, do you not then have patience with the needs of others? A reverent person honours Life in all its forms and all its activities. It does not think in the terms that are required to produce impatience." - Gary Zukav, from his book "The Seat of the Soul"

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Quote of the Day - December 31, 2007

  • Dec. 31st, 2007 at 7:44 PM
canadagoose
"Non-judgmental justice is a perception that allows you to see everything in life, but does not engage your negative emotions. Non-judgmental justice relieves you of the self-appointed job of judge and jury because you know that everything is being seen - nothing escapes the law of karma - and this brings forth understanding and compassion." - Gary Zukav, from his book "The Seat of the Soul"

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Quote of the Day - December 30, 2007

  • Dec. 30th, 2007 at 12:37 AM
steveleecloser
"Authentic power is the experience of meaning and purpose in your life. It is being fully engaged in the present moment. It is creating with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome." - Gary Zukav, from his book "Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart"

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Quote of the Day - December 29, 2007

  • Dec. 29th, 2007 at 10:36 PM
steveleecloser
"Competition is an expression of fear. Fear that you will not be able to take care of yourself. Fear that you are not lovable. Fear that your life is meaningless. The underlying issue is not one of competitiveness, but of fear.... From the perspective of your soul, there is nothing to compete for. You are a creative and powerful, compassionate and loving spirit. So are your fellow students in the Earth School." - Gary Zukav, from his book "Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart"

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Quote of the Day - Thursday, December 27, 2007

  • Dec. 27th, 2007 at 3:41 PM
steveleecloser
"If you decide that it is not your business when someone else suffers, don't think that your understanding of Karma will permit your act of callousness to go without its effects upon you. The suffering that you see is fair. Every experience in the Earth School is fair, but if you use your realization of this to ignore the suffering of your brothers and sisters, you create a world in which your suffering, also, is of no concern to others. That is Karma." - Gary Zukav, from his book "Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart"

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Quote of the Day - Sunday, December 23, 2007

  • Dec. 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 AM
steveleecloser
"Your emotional reactions have everything to do with you. When they come, you can observe them instead of acting on them. You do not need to peak angrily merely because you feel angry, or attempt to please someone because you feel the need to please him. Instead of attempting to change someone else to make yourself feel better, you can change yourself. Instead of assuming what makes you feel worst, assume what makes you feel the best. You are free to make the most positive assumption as well as the most negative." - Gary Zukav, from his book "Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart"

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Quote of the Day - Saturday, December 22, 2007

  • Dec. 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 PM
steveleepainting
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about, and that’s what these clues help us to find within ourselves --- myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.” – Joesph Campbell

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Quote of the Day - Friday, December 21, 2007

  • Dec. 21st, 2007 at 8:39 PM
steveleecloser
"Joy, sorrow, care, courage, and tenderness are real. Kindness is real. Tears are real, and so is laughter. These are the currency of the heart. They are meant to be exchanged." – Gary Zukav, from his book "Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart"

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Quote of the Day - Sunday, July 15, 2007

  • Jul. 15th, 2007 at 11:32 PM
blurrysteve
"The provincial governments of Quebec, Manitoba, and Newfoundland and Labrador have vowed to stick to the terms of Kyoto, whatever the federal government might do. Gordon Campbell, B.C.'s premier, has launched hwat looks like a pretty strong climate change plan. The provinces will have to do all this without help, however, as Harper has cut their environmental funding. In 2006, 1,400 Canadian mayors committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gases by 30 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050. It's not nearly enough, but it still puts Harper and his flock of chickens to shame." - George Monbiot in his updated Canadian forward, from his book "HEAT: How to Stop the Planet from Burning"

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Quote of the Day - Monday, June 25, 2007

  • Jun. 25th, 2007 at 6:57 AM
angelscarf
"We are a member of the human race. When we no longer try to stand above or apart from it, our art deepens. We move out from our limited perspective to a more humane and humanitarian one. If you are wondering where that is going to get you, the answer is very simple - to better art." - Julia Cameron from her book "Letters to a Young Artist - Building a Life in Art"

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Quote of the Day - Sunday, June 24, 2007

  • Jun. 24th, 2007 at 10:50 PM
steveleecloser
"Why do you think I am opposed to your having a 'romantic life'? My only caveat - albeit a big one - is that you manage an equal balance between 'romantic' and 'life.'...

I spoke this week to a female recording artist... she is reemerging into her life and her friendships after a year's stay in a boring and claustrophobic relationship.

'You know how it is,' she told me. 'After six months, the drug wears off.' By 'the drug' she meant 'sex.' She got into bed with someone she had nothing in common with except sex. 'Then spent another six months pretending there was something more there that wasn't,' she told me, laughing at herself. Meanwhile, no work.

Here's a thought. Find the 'something more' first and then follow that up with sx. If this advice sound archaic to you, it's because it is. It's the way it used to be done. An old man I know... put it this way: 'The trick is to find someone you like and then fall in love with them.'

From my perspective, you already have a long-term, intimate relationship, and that is with your art. Your lover needs to love and accept this necessarily independent part of yourself. This means, of course, that you must love and accept it in yourself." - Julia Cameron from her book "Letters to a Young Artist - Building a Life in Art"

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Quote of the Day - Saturday, June 23, 2007

  • Jun. 23rd, 2007 at 11:43 AM
babysteve
"Making art is as natural as breathing. Just like breathing, you need to do it, and with some coaching you can perhaps learn to do it better." - Julia Cameron from her book "Letters to a Young Artist - Building a Life in Art"

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