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  Featured image: Traveling II “I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” – Glenn Gould

Keep Believing

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  Featured image: Pot of Flowers “Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” – Jim Henson

Something to Hear

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  Featured image: What If A Bird Doesn't Sing “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.”— John Cage

A Trained Eye

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  Featured image: Canna Lily “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky

Abstraction

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 Featured image: Celebrate Innovation “Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.” — Arshile Gorky

They Are Always There

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  Featured image: Nature's Truth Rich earth, remarkable trees… woods, sky, nature. They offer a healing that is a natural process, something that goes beyond anything reasonable. And yet, it gives you a remarkable, comfortable, real sense of satisfaction and strength—a gift that helps fill you from within, if you allow it to. And the wonderful, glorious thing about nature is that it is always there. It can always be there, no matter what color it is, no matter what state it is in. It can always give you strength. It can always fill those empty spaces in your heart, if you allow it to. The sounds nature makes, or the sounds it does not make, become part of the alchemy—that magical transformation between you and nature. It is always mysterious and transformative, changing the ordinary into something very wonderful for you. Really, you make this transformation yourself, if you are simply silent and listen to all those sounds around you. Far away, the green leaves twist with the wind. ...

Transform the Sun

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  “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who… transform a yellow spot into a sun.” — Pablo Picasso Featured image: Checking Things Out