Art Supply House & Custom FramingThe essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche I always try to take Thanksgiving as a set-aside time for reflecting on the many blessings in my life. A lot of those focus around work and the joy and fulfillment that come from the opportunity to work with you. We […]
Every artist was first an amateur. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The term ‘amateur’ often gets a bad rap, but it’s rooted in something quite beautiful. Derived from the Latin word ‘amare’, which means to love. To do things for the love of it. This origin means that an amateur is someone who engages in a […]
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso Last week I was chatting with my daughter while she was drawing. (She’ll be 4 in December.) She said, “I am an artist.”I agreed, “Yes, you are.”She said, “I am drawing and painting, so I am an […]
Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you:a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting,a bee humming, a raindrop falling,a snowflake wafting alongthe clear evening air.There is magic everywhere.If you learn how to live it,life is nothing short of a daily miracle. ~ Sadhguru There are some who say things are getting worse. What do you […]
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ~ C.S. Lewis Have you ever read the instructions, watched the videos, and still had to fumble your way through a project? Happens to me all the time. No matter how much research I’ve done before tackling a project, the first […]
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ~ Dr. Seuss Every creator’s journey hosts a gentle dance between consumption and creation, shaping our artistic narrative much like the saying, “You are what you eat,” transcending into intellectual and emotional realms. Each interaction, […]
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~ Sam Levenson I was recently listening to a conversation with an author. He just finished a new book. He spent about 500 hours writing the first one, and close to 2,500 hours on this most recent one. His standards have changed over time, as have […]
The first time you hear something, you’re not really listening, you’re reacting. The second time you hear something, you’re comparing it to the first time. It’s only the seventh time you hear something that you’re actually listening. ~ Anonymous This year I grew a sourdough starter and have been making sourdough. The results have gotten […]
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ~ Vincent van Gogh Are you familiar with the physics of dominoes? It’s fascinating. And wonderfully applicable to the power of lining up a series of micro-goals to generate a ton of momentum in the process. (Check out this […]
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali In last week’s email, I wrote about perspective mattering because we look at things through different viewpoints. One of those viewpoints is time (the 4th dimension). Sometimes time results in […]