“I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.” ArtEnoughPlayLostExpressionWorthyArtisticInsecurityGood EnoughChildlikeDisconnectedArtistic Expression Author:Elisabeth Shue
“One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.” IfsLightAnswersMiddleExpressionExcellenceWorthyContradictionCollapse Author:Barry Lopez
“The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.” MindUseCausesEffectsObjectsExpressionOrdinaryPaintWorthyNoblePhasesSublime Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.” ChildrenArtStillsMomentsLosesLove IsEmotionConsciousnessSilenceMysteryInfluenceObjectsDivineExpressionOceanHighestMereCalmWaveWorthySunsetAutumnFloodOur LoveStatuesSymphonyRaptureRippleCaressMajesticForbidden LoveUnfathomableVistas Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
“Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that encouraged creative expression. Both my parents were artists, who didn't think much of TV and refused to upgrade our old black and white set. To entertain myself, I made art and wrote puppet shows.” ThinkingMenWayArtMadeShowsArtistParentBlackWhiteCreativeEnvironmentExpressionTvsRaisedWorthyPursuitPainterBlack And WhiteMen WomenRenaissancePuppetsCreative ExpressionRenaissance ManPuppet Shows Author:Mary Pope Osborne