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 An Artists Recipe For Life
Be insouciant with a smile. Laugh on purpose. Lie in the dark field and watch comets. Look danger in the eye with unwavering mirth. Wink, flirt, kiss and admire romance and beauty in others. Feel the grass, the wind, the sun and the emotions of all.
Laugh at Dream Stealers as you would a puppy attack. Play with them and tumble them with a flick of your toe. Make notes of your good dreams and forget the bad ones. Create images in the clouds, in your own mind and in the minds of others; illusion begins reality. Take bubble bath showers in the warm summer rain or a full moon, sometimes with a friend. Walk the beach.
Remember: it is your imagination that controls the future and you that control your imagination. Believe in magic, especially your own. Play with children and direct their future in the direction they wish to thrive into. Listen to old people then make your own decisions. Never throw your dreams away for they may save your life some day. Visualize excellence, yours and those you love.
Be always interested in others, as interest and attention are of the greatest value to all beings, based on scarcity alone! If you would pay a compliment to another, pay attention. Being interested is in all ways senior to being interesting. Exchange in abundance, give far more than you get. Give most of all your own personal interest in another, with rapt and penetrating attention in a loving way.
Create new idea fashions and newly realized realities by sharing your dreams with others. Desire Delight with Dignity. Purposely dream wonderful extremes with numerous perceptions. Flesh out your dreams with motion, color, sound, feelings, taste, smells, and more. Tell your stories according to the way you remember them, not necessarily the way they happened. Others have their versions too, but are they any more valuable than yours?
The body and swords will weaken and rust. The pike and mind will dull and bend. The will and spirit may remain most powerful, no matter how dire and overwhelming the adversity. Therefore, retain your integrity, hold your position when you know you are right. Your spiritual well-being supersedes the value of your physical well being. Some wait until they are on the death bed to realize these things! You can realize them now if you want to. Enjoy. Do well. Flourish. Prosper. Help others first and yourself last. It's like table manners in life!
Author: Jody Hudson
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 Why Buy Original Art
When You Can Steal It?
Why pay money for an original piece of art work, when you can buy an inexpensive print?
When it comes right down to it, creating a piece of art is a mystery. No artist, no matter how articulate, can explain why a particular work of art was created. By buying an art work you buy a piece of that mystery and have something that no one else will ever have.
An original piece of art is a passionate creation, which not only reflects the soul of the artist, but your soul as well, because you chose it. Owning a piece of art instead of owning a reproduction, is like having a person who is important in your life actually in the room with you, rather than having a photograph of that person on your desk. It reflects a piece of you that you cherish and want to share with the rest of the world.
For most people if they like a work of art, it is because it profoundly affects them. It reminds them of a time in their lives that was personally moving or important. And the exact same piece of art work will mean totally different things to different people, because every person is unique.
An original piece of art work can inspire lives and has the power to nurture and nourish the spirit.
If you compare a room with bare walls to one with original art work, the room with the original art work will be vibrant and alive. People will want to visit that room, very much the same way they want to visit museums, because the art work touches their soul in a very personal way. It reminds them of their humanity, of their significance in the world, something that is lost is the business of everyday lives.
Original art is inspiring and moving; it helps people get up in the morning, get through that meeting that they just didn't want to go to. It can give people the courage to go on, because it expresses something wonderful and profound about themselves, which they may not be able to articulate. That's why people say, "I don't know why I bought this piece of art, all I know is that I love it!"
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