Some words that inspire me in art and life

"...The only question that matters is, 'Am I living in a way that is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?' This I think is perhaps the most iimportant question for the creative individual."

Carl Rogers in "On Becoming A Person

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The goal of human life is to live fully, love wastefully and be all that you can be."

Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong

"Life expands or contracts according to one's courage."

Anais Nin

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in the shallows and in miseries...

And we must take the current when it serves

Or lose our ventures.""""

William Shakespeare

"I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes."

Walt Whitman

"Thought is the enemy."

Joseph Campbell

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."

Gertrude Stein

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

Joseph Campbell

"There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and the matter, for the field is the only reality."

Albert Einstein

"Be like that bird that, pausing in its flight

Tarries for a moment on a bough too slight,

And, feeling that it bends beneath it, sings

Knowing it has wings.""

Victor Hugo

"Hop in, baby. It's a big pool"

The elderly man in the swimming pool at the Y

About my work:

Figure drawings: I draw the figure from life, using a model. I am currently exploring how gestural lines, mixed with realistic classically-drawn passages, create an energetic figure that is both interpretive and honors the classical tradition.

Oil paintings: My current painting emphasis is on translating the same figure-drawing themes mentioned above into different mediums.

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