"Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are." ~ Paulo Coelho
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." ~ Bertolt Brecht
"Change before you have to." ~ Jack Welch
"If that's all there is, my friend, Then let's keep dancing" - CabaretIt's the New Year... a time to reflect, but also, a time to project. The "has beens and done thats" and the "wanna bees and will dos" converge. Sometimes this can be inspiring, but other times it can be incredibly daunting.
"But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Concern over criticism clogs creativity." ~ Duane Alan Hahn
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| Photo taken by Sonja Hakala |
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| Detail of a dyed & mono printed scarf on view at this show |
"Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring." ~ Terri Guillemets
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| Procion Dyed and Monoprinted Scarf on view at the Lyme Library WOW Group show Nov. 1 - Dec. 29th |
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass....it's about learning to dance
in the rain" ~ Anonymous
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and materials assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe
"If you have ever come away from listening to a motivational speaker feeling charged up, only to find that energy dissipate into nothingness over time, you know that inspiration by itself isn’t enough. It won’t magically make your dreams come true. What it will do, though, is add fuel to your fire as you do the grit work of turning those dreams into reality. And sometimes that makes all the difference between success and failure." ~ Curt RosengrenWorking, working, working toward craft fair season... my "to do" list is way too long!
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Eddie Robinson"
"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. ~Henry Moore"
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| Beth Berman's photo |
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block." ~Paul Gauguin
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| Tracy Penfield and dancers Dancing at my Installation, "Phragmites" www.sculpturefest.org/ |
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| Alexandra Nickerson (in green) talks about her quilt Mathea Daunheimer and I hold it for her. Sue Geno (L) and Celeste Janey (R) are part of the audience |
"Since your belief in yourself as an artist hinges on your ability to create, you must put your creative time and resources ahead of all other obligations in your life. If being an artist is central to who you are, you must put that first." - Li Gardinerhttp://www.artistresource.org/artlife.htm
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| Phragmites, close up detail of mono-printed silk |
"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art" - Picasso
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| Detail of Phragmites, my latest Sculpturefest Installation |
"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know." - Groucho Marx
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| Luke, Me, Molly, Charles, Christina, Catherine, Margot, Josh Wearing our newly tie dyed t-shirts on Nantucket |
Sculpture Fest 2010 will open with a reception for the artists and community on Saturday September 4th, 4 - 7 pm. BYO Picnic. 304 Prosper Road, Woodstock, VT.
"The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there." -- Monica Baldwin
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” - Mary Lou Cook
"My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune." ~Graycie Harmon
"Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power." - Paul J. Meyer
"When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence. - Brian Tracy
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"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. - Paul Gauguin
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." - Anaïs Nin
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Decide to be the generous, change-making, scarifying, delighting, over-the-topping dreamer you’re capable of being. -Seth Godin
"Do not destroy yourself just because you are good at what you do. Eat well, exercise, and take care of you!" - Margaret M. Sheehan
"If you're going to have an event, better make it big. Or even bigger than that. It needs to be awe-inspiring, frightening, on deadline and worth losing sleep over." - Seth Godin, from his blog 2/19/10
"Those who are comfortable taking chances know that the best way to grow is to reach beyond their grasp. Their sense of direction comes from the heart. They don't shy away from surprise; they might even seek it out. And they seldom die with regrets. In the end we regret not what we have done but what we have not done."-from the book, Get out of your own way
"Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible"
"If there wasn’t a penalty for laughing in court, the jury would never be able to hear the evidence."
"And imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name." - William Shakespeare
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. -- Winnie the Pooh
"An Artist is merely someone with good listening skills who accesses the creative energy of the universe to bring forth something on the material plane that wasn't here before." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.... The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mille
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify"-Henry David Thoreau
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. ..And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Marianne Williamson, A Course in Miracles
"We can tap into a powerful source of creative energy when we are willing to gradually cultivate a sense of order as to how we conduct our daily affairs"- Sarah Ban Breathnach
"A full spectrum of saturated color"Yeah, WOW. Look up Jenny Hearn from South Africa!
"learn and delight in your own style...."
"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch." ~ Leo Dworken
"Out of clutter, find simplicity" - Albert Einstein
"We want to know it all. To be creative means becoming more familiar with being a little lost."O.K. I admit it. I'm lost.
"Now the eyes of my eyes are opened" - e.e. cummings
"Oh, what a beautiful morning! Oh, what a beautiful day! I've got a beautiful feeling, everything's going my way!
"...in my view, fewer women than men are drawn to the self-limiting or even self-mutilating obsession that artistic careers often demand."
"In many ways, art is a beautiful delusion. One has to be willing to sacrifice everything to create an alternate universe." - Camille Paglia
"...most women do seem, for whatever reason, to be more empathetic and less aggressively confrontational than most men. Attacking the establishment and trying to topple and destroy cultural idols is more a male than female style." - Camille Paglia
"Not bad!, maybe I'll finish this one!"
Ode to Color
Colors are electrons
Visible, they occupy one octave of the
electromagnetic spectrum
To reach you, their rainbow vibrations move
at the speed of light
Yet, they require no medium
for transmission
Learn from your colors, for they are part of you:
mind, eye, sensation
Use your colors, for they are your personal resource
from the universe.
- Dorothee L. Mella
"People become really remarkable when they start thinking they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Poole
"A goal without an action plan is a daydream" - Nathaniel Branden
"If what you are doing doesn't feel wierd to you, you haven't gone out of your comfort zone for change to happen" - M.J. Ryan
"You're good enough as you are to do what you want as well as you can" - M. J. Ryan
