Aspire to inspire before you expire...

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Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Auntie Mame

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Jewelry isn’t meant to make you look rich. It’s meant to adorn you, which is not the same thing-

Coco Chanel

A little powder, a little paint - makes a woman what she ain’t...

Samuel F. Binkley

(maternal grandfather)

There’s a fine line between titillation and disgust.

Loretta LaRoche

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, then you are overdressed.

Kate Halverson

Start as you mean to go...

old English saying via

Brenda Dayne

I am breathless with gratitude for the collisions of choice and luck that have resulted in my being able to work under the full-on gaze of mountains and animate beauty. It’s a privilege to live any part of one’s life in proximity to nature.

Barbara Kingsolver

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekov

It’s a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

From movie - “O, Brother where art thou?”

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.

Roy Azdak

The best work happens while I’m looking the other way.

Mike Thiedeman

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has it’s own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

Art is not a thing.

It is a way.

Stephen D. Frazier

Adjust your expectations, and pure joy might be around the corner!

pat stettler

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.

Lilly Tomlin

A painting is never really finished - it simply stops in interesting places.

Paul Gardner

If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Grandma Moses

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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Pablo Picasso

I don’t believe in art, I believe in artists.

Marcel Duchamp

...in this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.

I recommend pleasant.

Elwood P. Dowd

From the film “Harvey”

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Nancy Reagan

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Goethe

Do what you can with what you have where you are...

Teddy Roosevelt

That’s a job instead of a joy..

Barbara Butler

Draw on the walls, believe in magic, laugh a lot, celebrate every gorgeous moment, read every day, and entertain your inner child....

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Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

Optimus Prime

From “Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen”

Jewelry takes people’s minds off your wrinkles.

Sonja Henie

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

Dolly Parton

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

C.S. Lewis