ART INSPIRES 2017

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It is about creating yourself.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

-- Maya Angelou

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

-- Henry David Thoreau

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.”

-- Talmud

“The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty really are in ourselves.”

-- Kahlil Gibran

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

-- Edgar Degas

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

-- Pablo Picasso

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

-- John Muir

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Justin Kern. “Called from darkness by the song of the sea.”
2. Image: by Thomas Hawk. “I Love You Katie Belle.”
3. Image: by Joe Jiang. “Painted Desert.”
4. Image: by Daniele Paccaloni. “The old and the new.”
5. Image: by Cathy. “Pinhole rainbows.”
6. Image: by David Strom. “Wirth Lake.”
7. Image: by Ruth Hartnup. “Art space.”
8. Image: Courtesy of Edgar Degas. “Dancers in Pink 2,” by Edgar Degas.
9. Image: Courtesy of Pablo Picasso. “The Blue Nude,” by Pablo Picasso.
10. Image: by Guy Mayer. "If the sky were a painting .... I would like to live in it with you "
11. Image: by Grant Eaton. Denali Double Rainbow Panorama.
12. Image: by Luke Andrew Scowen. “Field of Hope.”
13. Image: by Arturo Espinosa. “Seascape.”
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15. Image: by James Holloway. “Belly flop1b.”