Inspiration for tired pandemic winter days
Here are a few quotes and links to help you stay inspired and curious during the long cold days of February during a pandemic!
Georgia O’Keefe
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.”
“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.”
Frida Kahlo
“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of ‘madness’. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: ‘Poor thing, she’s crazy!’ (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.)
I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s – my madness would not be an escape from ‘reality’.”
“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
bell hooks (intentional lower case)
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
“Living simply makes loving simple.”
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
“Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.”
“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”
Eva Hesse
“I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.”
“I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable”
David Fideler
“When we experience this vital sense of connectedness, life becomes engaging and meaningful. In a living cosmovision, humanity is bonded with the heavens and the living Earth—an embodiment of the starlight from which all things flow.”
“Love and creative energy circulates through the world, rising up in the living imagination.”
“By invoking creative imagination and bringing forth that which is hidden, humanity taps into the deepest essence of things and enters into a vital collaboration with nature.”
“It is not the power to observe nature that is so important, but the power to worship it.”
Books
Three books that are inspiring me right now;
Podcasts
Three podcasts to listen to:
May you find ways to stay creatively inspired!
