You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.
— Gordon MacKenzie

 

For decades, I’ve gathered precious insights. Each one I read is like a breath of life. They lift my spirit and remind of the good we can do and marvelous things we can be. I hope this web site’s words and images uplift, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. I hope they gladden your heart.

 

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist. 
~Schumann

When Bach was asked how he thinks of so many new tunes, Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, “I have no need to think of them.  I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room.
~Laurens Van der Post

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
–Aristotle

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
~John Ruskin

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us.
And we must key into those feelings. … This is how new visions begin. 
–Audrey Lorde

 

Succeed and Soar!
Sandra Gould  Ford

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