quote of the day

Wake up and visualize your day as a blank canvas. Ask yourself, "Who is the artist today? Blind circumstance, or me? If I choose to be the artist, how do I want to paint my day?"

- Steve Chandler

quote of the day

"Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street-sweeper, be a Michelangelo of street sweepers!"

-Martin Luther King Jr.

quote of the day

"When I open my eyes in the morning I am not confronted by the world, but by a million possible worlds."

- Colin Wilson

Found in 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself 

art tip of the week

Tip #2 

Find Quotes That Inspire You

I love words and I love when they're put together in quote form. When I find a quote that really speaks to me, I write it down and reread it often. I try and figure out why it stood out amongst everything else I had read or heard all day. Usually there's a pretty good reason. 

Here's a quote I heard on a program called The Aspen Minute from The Aspen Ideas Festival. 

"Art comes from that part of us that is without fear, prejudice, malice or any of the other things that we create to separate ourselves; one from the other. Art makes each of us whole by insisting that we use all of our senses; our heads and our hearts. That we express with our voices, our hands, our bodies, as well as with our minds. And in this modern society, art may be the only force that invites expression from the inside out, where the pure light of the wisdom of the soul is realized."

-Jessye Norman