“Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.” HumansSpiritualMotivationSpiritualityGamesNamesAnimalCompassionCreativitySurvivalCuriosityUnconditional LoveIrrelevantUnconditionalHuman AnimalSpiritual AwarenessSpiritual Beings Author:Peter Shepherd
“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.” MenHas BeensEarthOrderGivenGrowsAnimalCreativityForeverTreeDyingBecomingWasteBirdRiversClimateDisappearBillionsForestsDestroyedLandscapeDryFewerCrashMarvelousShallowRuinedWildlifeDry Up Author:Anton Chekhov
“Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.” IfsNeedsLongRunningSpiritPassionAnimalCreativityRiskFedsStarving Author:Nancy Lam
“The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.” GivingFeelsKidsLife IsSpiritMotherGuyFatherAnimalCreativityMarriedFemaleCrossesRaisedExpectedDamnSupportiveFootsteps Author:Vali Myers
“There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.” ArtStillsBookBigsArtistAnimalCreativitySubjectsMemoirSublimeInquiryHauntingFamily Love Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson