Quotes to Ponder

I have been building up a list of quotations. These help me out when I'm down, a little muddled, or completely lost in art, life, everything. Enjoy.

                                                       

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Louisa May Alcott

"No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here."
John G. Whittier

"Go back a little to leap further."
John Clarke

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Jodie Foster

"When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time."
Cy Twombly

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
John Lennon

"Reason is powerless in the expression of Love."
Rumi

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

Andy Warhol

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."

Abraham Maslo

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."  

Edgar Degas

"I am an artist… I am here to live out loud." 

Emile Zola

"A line is a dot that went for a walk." 

Paul Klee

  

“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” 

Helen Keller

                                                        

Happy Monday!