Inspirations

Words of Inspiration and encouragement.

Some quotes from various authors and books that have inspired me.
If you would like to add some quotes or your own words of inspiration I would love to receive them. There is a form at the bottom of this page for that if you are so inclined.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Experience, even for a painter, is not exclusively visual.
Walter Meigs

Like  an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass

He paints like a man going over the hill singing.
Robert Henri

Nobody sees a flower-really-it is so small it takes time-we haven’t time-and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keefe

So you see, imagination needs moodling- long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland

Inside you there’ an artist you don’t know about…Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universes.
Jalai Ud-Din Rumi

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

If you can sign your name and have a desire to learn anyone can be an artist.
We are all creative beings.
Francine Dufour Jones

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