Philosophy of the Day or Week
"Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once we grow up." -Pablo Picasso
"Every artist has a thousand bad drawings in them, and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out." -Chuck Jones
"Keep telling stories that mean something to you, because if they are important to you, they will resonate with others." -America Young
"If you make something you love, an audience who loves it will find it." -Alex Hirsch
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is people who are alive." -Howard Thurman
"There's a victory in letting go of your expectations." -Mark White
"If you ever get curious and wonder who you were meant to be, look into the mirror and smile." -Mike Dooley
"People don't decide their futures. They decide their habits, and their habits decide their futures." -F. M. Alexander
"The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art." -Junot Diaz
"Every professional is an amateur who never gave up." -David Lynch
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -George Bernard Shaw
"Creativity takes courage." -Henri Matisse
"Most people don't want to be part of the process, they just want to be part of the outcome. But the process is where you figure out who's worth being part of the outcome." -Scottie Pippen
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." -Gerard Way
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." -Kurt Vonnegut
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." -Jim Rohn
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." -Albert Schweitzer
"People forget facts. But they remember stories." -Joseph Campbell
"You can fail at what you don't want...So you might as well take the chance at doing what you love." -Jim Carrey
"I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when more people recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture." -Vincent Van Gogh
"If you feel something calling you to write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it." -Glennon Doyle
"Learning to draw is not about learning to draw. It's about learning to see." -Betty Edwards
"In great attempts, even failure is glorious." -Bruce Lee
"Slow success builds character. Fast success builds ego." -Ratan Tata
"Art doesn't exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb in a constant search for the truth." -Barbera Streisand
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be." -Douglas Adams
"You're not supposed to make art for curators. You're supposed to teach them what art is coming from you." -Charles Ludlam
"Champions aren't on the days they feel motivated, but the days they feel like quitting." -Unknown
"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." -Steve Jobs
"The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling, but a fear of responding to the call." -Michael Meade
"The worst thing you can do is have a burning, genuine desire in your heart, and choose not to act on it." -Morgan Nelson
"When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. When we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." -Wendell Berry
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." -Edgar Degas
"Art does not reproduce what we see. Rather, it makes us see." -Paul Klee
"We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory." -Louise Glück
"Never apologize for burning too brightly, or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made." -Tyler Kent White
"When I receive messages from people who say that my work has touched them or helped them in some way, that's what makes it all worth it." -Nicky Myny
"What did you do as a child that made hours pass like minutes? Heron lies the key to your earthly pursuits!" -Carl Jung
"We don't see things as they are; we see them as WE are." -Anaïs Nin
"A boss has the title, a leader has the people." -Simon Sinek
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." -Aldous Huxley
"A writer is a world trapped inside a person." -Victor Hugo
"Artists are here to disturb the peace." -James Baldwin
"Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul, and you answer." -Terri Guillimets
"If you hear a voice within you say 'You cannot paint!', then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced." -Vincent Van Gogh
"Anyone can be creative. It's about showing up AS YOU ARE to life AS IS, without excuses or escapes, and daring to imagine new possibilities...then taking the steps to make them real." -Rainier Wylde
"Artist are here to disturb the peace." -James Baldwin
"Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul...and you answer." -Terri Guillemets
"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children." - Rilke
"The object isn't to make art. It's to be in that wonderful state where art is inevitable." - Robert Henri
"Artists don't wait for doors to open. They blaze their own trails and light the way for others. Together, we keep the dream alive." - CREATE MAGAZINE
"Being an artist requires you to be brave, to bear your soul, to expose your wounds, to stand naked in the spotlight...before a world that will judge you, criticize you, and try to tear you down! Being an artist doesn't just require you to be brave...It demands a @*#$ing warrior!" - Michael Carini
"When I'm making a film, I am the audience." - Martin Scorsese
"Movies are my religion, and God is my Patron. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me...like I would die for it!" - Quentin Tarantino
"There's no retirement as an artist; it's your way of living, so there's no end to it." - Henry Moore
"Art is good for my should precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place." - Tilda Swinton
"An artist discovers their genius the day they decide not to please." - Andre Malraux
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success just to be one!" - Charles Horton Cooley
"A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places." - Paul Gardner
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." - Francis Bacon
"Owning original art is like owning a piece of someone's creative DNA. It's not just a painting...it's a moment, a mood, a conversation waiting to unfold." - Amanda Carol Eck
"Aiming at greatness is different than aiming at being better than someone else." - Rick Rubin
