After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.
Humans need fantasy in order to be human.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.
We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.
The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement. . . In every season of life. . . we need to be committed to enlarging our personal capacity (even when it's not comfortable). We need to refuse to be satisfied with our latest accomplishments, as what we've accomplished is no longer our potential because it has been realized.
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
Sometimes a step forward needs a step back.
The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.