“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.” WorldFeelsImportantArtistSoundDifferencesSeaGreenColourAttending Author:Eric Maisel
“I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a lot of things get discarded along the way. It's a little like boiling sea water to get at the salt.” WayLittlesArtistWaterSeaPatientSaltDiscardedBoilingInquisitiveSea Water Author:James Nares
“What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?” MenLifeArtBookArtistHopeSeaLandPaintingLive LifeAwakeDragonsGuardedDolphinsWagonsNymphsHope To Live Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.” MadeFormArtistThreeCitiesSeaToughOrganizationAcceptedCorporationsThrownBelongingSurvivedThree TimesCeremonyMedievalRiteTradersInitiationChimneysNorwayGuilds Author:Isaac Asimov
“Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.” SeemsArtistSeaPoetPerceptionMusicianContemporaryVersionsPainterOfficialsAccurateContemporary Life Author:Billy Joel
“Every drop in the ocean counts.” ArtArtistWaterSeaOceanBeachDrop Of WaterWorld Water DayDrops In The Ocean Author:Yoko Ono
“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.” LittlesEyeArtistTurnsSeaMissingNew YorkEuropeTownsFarmsDiscontentLittle Towns Author:Norman Rockwell