SallyJean

Take a moment for calm and peace...

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I've fallen into this bliss

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic,
serenity, sorcery and mystery.
~Luis Barragan~ 

 

So beautifully organic

After a storm comes a calm.
~Matthew Henry~

 

Grasp

Night, the beloved, Night, when words fade and things come alive.  
When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important
becomes whole and sound again.  When man reassembles his fragmentary self
and grows with the calm of a tree.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~ 

 

Just because it's French

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
~Bernard Pivot~

 

Need I say more?

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
~Michael Caine~

 

When it's done right

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
~Satchel Paige~

 

Sit a spell

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling
or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind,
rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
~Henri Matisse~

 

Token taxidermy du jour

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. 
~John De Paola~

 

The eye candy of old books

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

 

As time goes by

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr~

The peace of the past

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa~

 

xo

Sally Jean

 

Sometimes your spirit needs art...

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. 
~Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999~

Ready. Set. Go. 

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures. 
~Henry Ward Beecher~

 

I could create here....

The artist's world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere,
far from where he lives or a few feet away. 
It is always on his doorstep. 
~Paul Strand~

 

Sharing art...

I don't paint things.  I only paint the difference between things. 
~Henri Matisse~

 

Talk is pretty

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way
- things I had no words for. 
~Georgia O'Keeffe~

 

Eating art...

Great art picks up where nature ends. 
~Marc Chagall~

 

Carry art with you...that can carry art

Let me ask you something, what is not art? 
~Author Unknown~

 

Taxidermy fetish again...

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he
- for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. 
~Andy Warhol~

 

Whats on your mind is art
via
Not Paper 

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 
~Pablo Picasso~

 

A photographers vision is art through his eyes and lens

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day
what I did at work.  I told her I worked at the college - that my job was
to teach people how to draw.  She stared at me, incredulous,
and said, "You mean they forget?" 
~Howard Ikemoto~

 

Art to Wear

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. 
~John Updike~

 

Sketchbooks filled with art...your history

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art,
and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. 
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

 

The story is as inspirational as the art

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. 
~Stella Adler~

 

You can't escape art...it follows you wherever you go

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. 
~Twyla Tharp~

 

Wrap art around your neck

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. 
~Kojiro Tomita~

 

A new eye candy show! I die!

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

 

No other art makes my soul swoon than the art of a child...

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. 
~Pablo Picasso~

 

 

XO

Sally Jean