27-APR-2008
It starts with and idea and grows into art...
The world changes every day, so why shouldn't my art and my creativity change....
~eljayrae
"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create."
~ Nicole Malebranche
"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'she feels deeply, she feels tenderly.' "
~eljay (originally Vincent Van Gogh)
07-APR-2008
I can see you...
While driving down the street in Geneva... glancing at the beautiful color of the buildings glistening in the sun... I happened to look up. To my amazement, something was staring back..
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
~Elizabeth Bowen
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust
You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
~Paul Gauguin
Summer 1939
my mom....
when i miss her, it makes my heart ache... i think of when we laughed so hard, at the dumbest things.... when we didn't agree... when she gave me good advice that i didn't take... when she did something i didn't understand at the time, but understand it now.... talking on the phone with her, and knowing i would not always have her on the other end.....
friends told me, after she was gone, that i would feel her with me, and i didn't.... but maybe this is what they meant... the remembering...
March 2008
come in and sit a spell...... and dream a little...
......imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
~John Lennon
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." ~ Henry Davit Thoreau
"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ~George Bernard Shaw
March 2008
pretty in pink...
Sometimes I wake in the morning with art on my mind.... a great project to create or a place to travel to for a photo... an angle or background for a portrait or a new window display for work. It's as if it comes to me in a dream.. I guess my mind never rests far from art.
A few of my favorite artist quotes:
"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo Picasso
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ~ Edgar Degas
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." ~ James McNeill Whistler
"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."
~ Auguste Renoir .... and that is why, once in a while, I try to paint.. eljayrae
HILLARY CLINTON
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
We are all rooting for you Hillary...
the sky is the limit...
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we do not even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
01-MAR-2008
in and out of our lives...
They say the generation X are part of the "revolving door" generation. Go out into the world for a while and then come home to re-group and try it again. I understand. I am so happy to have her with me, but know that she must go on with her own life. To value her own good opinion, a child has to feel that she is a worthwhile person. She has to have confidence in herself as an individual.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~Ann Frank
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes a village to raise a child.
~ African Proverb.... and ~Senator Hilary Clinton
26-FEB-2008
age gracefully...
Well... I am winding down to the "Big 6-0" as they say.... isn't it funny how 60 doesn't seem as old now.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
~ Virginia Woolf
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
~Abe Lincoln
And as for ART:In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.
November 2007
energy is within our reach...
~ environmental ~ responsible ~ challenging ~ sustainable ~ recycle ~
.....an assumption that resources are there and will always be there...
.....can we imagine a greener way to live.... wind turbines.....
.....live off the flows of nature.... invest in alternatives......
..... if you stand on the sidelines you do not have the right to complain......
~Robert Redford~
.....why should we be the species to end the cycle of life - prove we are better than that...
~Ben Harper~
21-NOV-2007
such beauty in simplicity... Happy Thanksgiving..
leaving work the afternoon before thanksgiving... i had to stop and pause to take a photo of the mill...it was calling to me... after drizzling all day the stone was water-soaked... giving a darker cast.... the sky was sullen with a bit of sun peering through the clouds... the birds doing their evening circle from the bridge to the smokestack and back.... so peaceful with the water still and the reflection like glass... could there be a more quaint site to take pause..
~eljayrae
November 2007
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”
~Angelina Jolie That definately give us a view into her mind and spirit.
Angelina... I often feel that way too. Very antsie... the urge to run... as I call it..."the grass is greener syndrome"... even though I have grown out of the actual movement... the mind still wants to take off to parts unknown... seek a new adventure... see what I have not seen... soak in the beauty of sites not yet discovered... ghost towns.. mountains and trails.... old churches.... lakes and rivers.... covered bridges... antique shops... it is all in a days dreaming...
~eljayrae