I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN-DA FAVES

I try very hard to fave as much as possible, but never want thank yous. This is my way to thank the joy so many DA artists have given me.  Your work is not collected because you're my friend, it's in my faves because it's good.
Please visit these artists and enjoy. Did I mention, they're nice people who appreciate you?
These are just a few.

I hope he doesn't mind, this got me right in the heart. It needs to be read often.

On Art. . .

“The artist never entirely knows — We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark” ~Agnes de Mille

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ~Pablo Picasso

“When I say artist I mean the one who is building things … some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.” ~Jackson Pollock

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.” ~Ezra Pound

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” ~Auguste Rodin

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” ~John W. Gardner

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.” ~Pablo Picasso

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing” ~Pablo Picasso

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”. ~Thomas Merton

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~Neil Gaiman

“The earth has music for those who listen.”  ~William Shakespeare

“Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.” ~Terri Guillemets

“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.” ~Bruce Lee

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” ~Robert Henri

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” ~Jean-Luc Godard

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‎”Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.” ~Steven Pressfield

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.” ~James McNeil Whistler

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

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.” ~Goethe

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time, it’s just that others are behind the times.” ~ Martha Graham

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.” ~G.K. Chesterton

“Art is literacy of the heart” ~Elliot Eisner

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This little guy owns my heart
for he is the future we must protect.
He sings a song that makes no sense,
babbles aloud what's on his mind.
Gets my attention, his words important.
Turns a stone cold heart to gentle love.
Children are our finest creations,
we are not making just deviations,
we're creating a future for us all.
Look at the curiosity in those eyes,
does he know something we need never forget?
This is art.
Sue J.O. 8/21/2016


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