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Quote by Janice Tanton

“Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.”

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Janice Tanton

Janice Tanton is an artist born in 1961. Her works are renowned for their unique visual style and profound emotional expression, spanning various media and forms. more

“I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.”

Thinking World Years Humans Stills Shows Understanding Numbers Laughing Cry Praying Structure Paint Preserves Curse Detest

Author:Janice Tanton

“The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.”

Deeper Obliged Deeper Meaning

Author:David Toop

“Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.”

Way Long Sometimes Lost Talking Silent Critics Stuck Vacant

Author:David Toop

“I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.”

Writing Hard Joy Hours Work Week Minutes Information Pure Pure Joy Sharing Information

Author:Carmine Gallo

“An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.”

Giving Joy Fall Courses Audience Integrity Give Me Innocence Sabotage Great Joy

Author:Selima Hill

“If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.”

People Ifs Needs Writing Communication

Author:Selima Hill

“I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.”

Feels Persons Real Paper Insecurity Blank Sheets Real Person

Author:Selima Hill

“All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.”

Thinking Faces Poetry Poet Intimate Face To Face

Author:Selima Hill

“When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!”

People Firsts Scary Recognition Hiding Rushing Rushing In

Author:Selima Hill

“I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.”

Thinking Giving Voice Silence

Author:Selima Hill

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