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Thought For the Day: Patience Is Also A Form of Action
“Patience is also a form of action.” -Auguste Rodin, sculptor (12 Nov 1840-1917), attributed to Rodin in Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection, p.124, by Leonard William Doob — Action is most commonly thought of as being proactive and doing something tangible. … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Art, Auguste Rodin, Challenge, Consideration, Delayed Gratification, Deliberation, Endeavors, Fast Paced Society, Form, Long-Term Results, Outcome, Patience, Proactive, Sculptor, Sculpture, Strategic Choice, Strength, Tangible, Thought For the Day, Water
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Virtue and Disobedience
Virtue and Disobedienceby Michael DoylePainting away your dayAs old records playEach portrait painted with feelingIs nothing less than soul-revealingThat is to say about the painters’ waysNot of the sitter, despite honoring his daysSpending time on crafting the right impressionThis is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist's Confession, Confident, Control, Dangerous, Deal, Death, Depravity, Disobedience, Drink Away, Duress, Equally Unafraid, Evil, Explanation, Feeling, Genuis, Great Ideas, Heart, History, Holidy, Immoral, Indignity, Innocent, Knife Blade, Lips, Madman, Mask, Mystery, Old Records, Pain, Paint, Painter, Pawns, Phantom Lover, Plain, Poetry and Poems, Polish, Portrait, Possibility, Rationalization, Regrets, Rewrite History, Right Impression, Saint, See, Sitter, Skill Set, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Strangeness of Life, Survivors, Truth, Virtue, Wolves, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Define Electricity. The Same Can Be Said of Art. It Is A Kind of Inner Current In A Human Being, Or Something That Needs No Definition
“You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.” – Marcel Duchamp
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Tagged Art, Define, Eelecdtrity, Human Being, Inner Current, Kind, Marcel Duchamp, Need, No Definition, Thought For the Day
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With An Idea In View
With An Idea In Viewby Michael DoyleWith an idea in viewI wished for a dream come trueAnd hope replaced my heartacheThat came from my last mistakeTrying my best to figure it outTaking my best shot at what it’s aboutFinding it … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, August Moon, Band, Best Shot, Bloom, Brave, Call, Dance and Sway, Dancing, Dream, Fall For Me, Fallen Guard, Fan, Figure It Out, Graceful, Hard, Heart, Heartache, Hope, Hoping, Idea, Kisses Like Roses, Last Mistake, Magic, Man, Mean, Meet, Miine, Miss, Moonlight, Moonshine, Moping, Music, Nightfall, Often Do, One In A Million, One Look, Passion, Please, Poetry and Poems, Queen, Rhythm, Right, Shades, Simple, Sonata, Speak My Words, Street, Sweet, Talk Too Much, Tasteful, Tease, Time, True, Unforgettable, View, Watch, Wish
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Royal Road To Learning; No Short Cut To the Acquirement of Any Art
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.” – Anthony Trollope
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Tagged Acquirement, Anthony Trollope, Art, Learning, Royal Road, Short Cut, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Fight Your Superficiality, Your Shallowness, So As To Try To Come At People Without Unreal Expectations, Without An Overload of Bias or Hope or Arrogance
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating … Continue reading
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Tagged American Pastoral, Arrogance, Art, Bias, Books, Fight, Forget, Go Along, Hope, Open Mind, Philip Roth, Poetry, Right or Wrong, Shallowness, Superficiality, The Ride, Thought For the Day, Unreal Expectations, Writing
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