Looking For Peace

I took some time this morning just to browse around the web and find pictures that speak "peace"...  I love the way this tiny word can be represented in so many ways.  The words that settle around my heart when I hear the word is...

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace...

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New Wine Cannot Fit into Old Wineskins

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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

 — John Maynard Keynes

Have you Been Told That you Think Too Much?

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 Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

 – Ray Bradbury

Who Doesn't Admire Someone Who Is Curious?

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 Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people

 – Leo Burnett

It's What you Do With your Mistakes that Matter

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
 – Scott Adams

What if You Run Out of Ideas

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 “You can’t use up creativity. 
The more you use, 
the more you have.” 

— Maya Angelou

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Why Exactly Must You Have Limits on your Creativity

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 “A truly creative person 
rids him or herself 
of all
 self-imposed limitations.” 

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

So What Is It That is Exciting you Right Now

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 “Truly creative people 
care a little about what they have done,
 and a lot about what they are doing. 
Their driving focus
 is the life force 
that surges in them now.”

 — Alan Cohen

Show Me What You Got

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 “Held in the palms of thousands
 of disgruntled people over the centuries 
have been ideas worth millions
 – if they only
 had taken the first step
 and then followed through.” 

– Robert M. Hayes

Examine What is Holding You Back

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“The difficulty lies not so much 
in developing new ideas 
as in 
escaping from old ones.” 

— John Maynard Keynes

What we need Is more Creative People in the World

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Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing.  Creativity gives hope that there will be a worthwhile idea.  Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.  Creativity makes life fun and more interesting.

-Edward de Bono

How Do You Grow More Hope in your Life?

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties

-Erich Fromm

Creativity as Nourishment for Your Soul and Your Spirit

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"In order to communicate the message entrusted to us by Christ, the Church needs art.  Art has a unique capacity to take one or another facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes, and sounds that nourish the intuition of those who look and listen"

- Pope John Paul II

The Creative Gift You are Given is Not Just for Personal Use

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"Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world."

-The Creative Call

You Owe it To Yourself and to The World to Be More Creative

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"Creative people know that not only are they missing something important when they aren't exercising their creative gifts but they are also shrinking from the responsibility they have to develop those gifts."

-The Creative Call

You Know The Way Art is Able to Tranform You...

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"Great art is something that when you experience it, it lifts you out of yourself, puts you in another dimension, and places you back down transformed"

-Sister Wendy Beckett

Maybe We Need to Adjust How We See the World

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 “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while” 

– Steve Jobs

What Creativity is Really All About

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“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”

 – Charles Mingus

You Can Start Over and Make it Better

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Time to Dream Again

This Little Submarine of Mine

She went on a voyage to her soul and found through looking past the muck of disappointments...
There is was
her dreams
her ideas
her vision
there they are...

Details:
9" x 12"
108lb watercolor paper
acrylic paint/pencil/watercolor

$35