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- The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
- Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
- The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
- Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
- Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
- Piero Ferrucci
- All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
- M. C. Richards
- Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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