Quote of the Day – April 10, 2012

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

Why do we do what we do? Why do we as humans need to express our being either in small ways or large. Perhaps for some it is in the way we dress or the language that we use. Perhaps in what we believe how we pray or who we choose to hang around with. With every breath of our being we find new ways to express who we are. I am grateful for the talents I’ve been given (such as they are) for writing and for art. I love how I get inspired to dig deeply and create something new. Recently I came across a quote that every time we sit down to write something, it is a spiritual act in that we pray for language. I suppose the graphic corollary to this is that every time I open up Photoshop and start messing with images, I pray for aesthetics. I pray that somehow the images and symbols and photos I play with can be rearranged and combined and coloured in a way that will express something of my being.
Even if many of my pictures aren’t quite successful. Even if my words fall short of expressing what I wish them to. At least I can say that I’ve brought something new into the world and sometimes, sometimes, I know I have achieved beauty and meaning. If I can do that once than it is worth the ten thousand attempts. For all of you creative beings, of which I include everyone I’ve ever met whether or not they consider themselves an artist, I am grateful and humbled
Blessings, G

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Spirits of Love by G A Rosenberg

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