The Here and Now

"Awareness requires living in the here and now
and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future."
~ Eric Berne

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-eight

"Art is the essence of awareness."

~ Louise Nevelson

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"Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness."
~ Peter London

"Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness;
meaning at-oneness, the state of being
at one with creation."
~ D.H. Lawrence

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Like A Gardener

"My kind of composing is more
like the work of a gardener. 
The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them,
knowing what he is planting but not quite
what will grow where and when;

and he won't necessarily be able to
reproduce it again afterwards either."

~ Brian Eno

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-six

"One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting." 

~ Robert Genn

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"The relationships of shape, texture, and color

all contribute to the creative action that

gradually becomes the expressive concept."

~ Marilyn Hughey Phillis

"Composition is the gravity that holds a painting together."
 ~ Frank Webb

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Faith Set Afire

"Enthusiasm is a kind of faith 
that has been set afire." 
~ George Matthew Adams

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-five

"Enthusiasm is not an emotional state.
It is a spiritual commitment,
a loving surrender to our creative process.
Enthusiasm - from the Greek, 'filled with God' - 
it is an ongoing energy supply tapped into
the flow of life itself."

~ Julia Cameron

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"Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... 

it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be

more conscious of feelings that we might previously

have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly."

~ Alain de Botton

"Nothing is so contagious
as enthusiasm."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whatever your plans for the day, do it with enthusiasm!

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Dancing With Chaos

"The artist confronts chaos.
The whole thing of art is;
how do you organize chaos?" 
~ Romare Bearden

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-four

"The urban world is full of chaotic compositions
that seem to make sense in a way that earlier decades and centuries could never have imagined." 
~ Nicoletta Baumeister

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"The creation of true art requires some
mysterious innate ability to thrive in chaos."
~ Sharon Hubbard

"Painting is dancing with chaos!"

~ Melanie Circle

I hope you have an organized chaotic day!

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Set Energy in Motion

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, 
it can only be changed from one form to another.”
~ Albert Einstein

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-three

“The world belongs to the energetic."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"When any one of us is aligned with our purpose,
there is an inexhaustible source of energy. Once
you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is
always there to do whatever you need. You never
get tired and you do everything with a sense of joy.
It's actually effortless – it's a flow."
~  Dennis Kucinich

"The higher your energy level, the more efficient
your body. The more efficient your body,
the better you feel and the more you will use
your talent to produce outstanding results."
~ Tony Robbins

I hope you have an energized day!

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Go With The Flow

“I think it's important to have a plan 
but I think one should also be flexible 
and go with the flow." 
~ Mary Jean Mailloux

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-two

“Flow can only truly be achieved when we
are willing to let go of the outcome and just play."
 ~ Sandra Taylor Hedges

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“Flow is being completely involved in an activity
for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies.
Every action, movement, and thought follows
inevitably from the previous one."
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyil

"Flow is simply the result of shifting
from left brain to right brain work."
 ~ Steve Hovland

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