This is what life is

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. – Saul Bellow, Herzog 

Our Planet

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. ~ Robert Swan 

Get Scared

Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out – I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself. ~ Albert Camus 

The Poets

Those who create their own worlds are generally the poets. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky 

Animal Dreams

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. ~ Barbara Kingsolver – Animal Dreams  

Pablo Picasso

I don’t have a clue. Ideas are simply starting points. I can rarely set them down as they come to my mind. As soon as I start to work, others well up in my pen. To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing… When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. ~ Pablo Picasso

NégyArt

One day someone is going to hug you so tight, that all of your broken pieces will stick back together. (NégyArt)

Art by Saul Leiter

Whenever you consider it necessary. Light a dream and let it burn in you. - William Shakespeare (Art by Saul Leiter), NegyArt

art by mac stevenson

clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky (art by mac stevenson), negyart

szingy today

szingy today: growth isn’t always constant, relapses happen, it doesn’t erase all your success (negyart)

 

Vincent van Gogh

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent van Gogh

Claude Monet

What keeps my heart awake is the colorful silence. - Claude Monet

Vincent van Gogh

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. - Vincent van Gogh

szigetingy facebook

Meditation gives me the space to step back and look at myself without judgement. From that awareness comes acceptance, and from that acceptance comes love.

Szingy Moments

Szingy Moments: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston S. Churchill

Albert Camus wrote

You came, by chance, into my life of which I was not proud, and from that day something began to change. I have breathed better, I have hated things less. I have admired more freely what deserved admiration. - Albert Camus wrote to Maria Casarès in 1949. (Painting by Johanne Cullen)

Art by Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

Jackson Pollock - Galaxy, 1947

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. - Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956) Galaxy, 1947

i hope

i hope women who are learning to detach themselves from certain situations and people who no longer contribute to their growth are having a good day

Three Roads

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself. - Anton Chekhov