Quotes

This is a kind of cop-out post for me. It just a list of quotes I like. Some are well known and famous others are by people I know or have known. Just thought I would throw this out there as this is the sort of thing that is reflective of my personal journal books and sketch pads.
"We're all fucked. It helps to remember this."
George Carlin (St. George)
"We are, each of us, a multitude."
Carl Sagan
"It's all very complex. Or else it's very simple. Or perhaps both. Or neither."
"Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process."
M. C. Escher
"Don't be afraid of mistakes, there aren't any"
Miles Davis
"Your problems is that you think you have time"
Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda
"The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge."
Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Keep climbing. If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving!"
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
When you're going through hell... keep going!
Winston Churchill
“No one can give you any answers. There aren’t any. You have to discover for yourself—you must learn to navigate the mystery.”
Bill Hicks
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift".
Albert Einstein
"Leap and the net will appear"
Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way)
"I had nothing to offer anyone but my own confusion."
Jack Kerouac
"One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good"
Albert Einstein
"Sanity (in the everyday sense of the word) is not an essential quality of great art."
Gerald Abraham
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough."
Me...Christopher Stone
"Give Up"
Don Joyce
"If you don't want to, and you don't have to, the answer is DON'T"
-Casey Leonardo
"You need to get out more"
Bob Hennesy (Co-worker)
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
Jackson Pollock
"The difference between the artist and the non-artist is that the artist never stops playing."
Alex Mozart
"We have to live our lives as if we are dying of a fatal disease. Because we are."
Phineas Narco
"We may think in life that we are going around in circles. In reality it is like ascending a spiral staircase. From above it looks like we are going around in circles.Try to view it from the side".
Onan Canobite
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
-=-Shakti Gawain
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
-=-Eugene Delacroix
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-=-Albert Einstein
"The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness."
-Loren Eiseley, Strangeness in the Proportion
Once I personally realized I would never completely have my shit
"TOGETHER" ....I finally started to enjoy life....sort of.
-=-Bill T. Miller
"Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between
the desire to stand out and the need to blend in."
-- Sydney J. Harris
"You don't have to listen to any voice that does not bring you peace."
-=-Unknown
"Trust that still, small voice that says 'This might work and I'll try it.'"
-=-Diane Mariechild
"The life which is not examined is not worth living".
-=-Plato
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
-=-J. Krishnamurti
"Where do we get our values from?"
-=-George Carlin
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious".
Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as if everything is."
"It's always more fun when you don't understand it."
Anonymous 7-11 clerk
"A life is a single letter in the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning."
The Jewish Theological Seminary:
"Art is meant to disturb."
-Georges Braque, Illustrated Notebooks
"Art is a house that tries to be haunted."
Emily Dickinson
"Life isn't about ending up properly adjusted by the time you hit 18 or even by the time you finish going to college and then going out into the world. In a way, life is about constantly improving one's adjustment to it".
My friend Dondra
“Green”
Also my friend Dondra when asked what four plus four came to.
"There's a big difference between wanting to and feeling that you should"
Unknown
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein
"If you can't learn, you've got to feel"
My mother / My grandmother
"Life is full of misery, pain and tremendous suffering, and it's all over much too quickly."
Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
"If you wake up and you're not in pain, you know you're dead"
Russian Proverb
"We never really grow up, we only learn
how to act in public."
Bryan White
"When I stopped dwelling on how things would probably work out, I was better able to pay attention to what I was doing."
Living with Sobriety
"You can't run from your own legs"
St. Janor Hypercleets
"Life is a struggle."
My Mother
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."
C. G. Jung
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
If you learn from your suffering,
and really come to understand the lesson you were taught,
you might be able to help someone else who's now
in the phase you may have just completed.
Maybe that's what it's all about after all...
~ Anonymous ~
"Life is beautiful".
-=-My Mother
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
-=-Baruch Spinoza
"...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden."
-=-Roger Waters
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."
-=-Piet Mondrian
"The past is history, the future is a mystery; but today is a gift; that's why we call it the present."
-=-Unknown
"This isn't meant to last. This is for right now."
-=-Trent Reznor
"Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance".
-=- M.C. Richards
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary".
-=-Pablo Picasso
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
-=-C. G. Jung
"I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God."
-=-C. G. Jung
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-=- Plato
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
-=-Pablo Picasso
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. But crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just crazy.
-=-Unknown
"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad."
-R.D. Lang
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
-Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.
"Think mystery, not mastery"
-=-Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way)
"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible would be like, I don't
know, terminal cases, you know, blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky to be miserable."
-=-Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
"If Jesus Christ came back today and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop
throwing up."
-=-Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters--written)
"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad."
-Aldous Huxley
Porn is just like sex with all the awkwardness edited out.
-=-Phineas Narco
"It's not that I'm afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-=-Woody Allen
"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else".
-=-Woody Allen
"Make your own recovery the first priority in your life."
-=-Robin Norwood
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my wood flooring."
-=-Woody Allen
"I've been wrestling with reality for most of my life. I'm pleased to say I've won."
-=-Emo Phillips
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
-G. B. Burgin
"Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego"
-=-Albert Einstein
"Be wary when you find yourself walking down a path towards knowledge--all such roads inevitably lead to madness."
-Erehwon
"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."
-Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
-=-Robert Frost
"If it was up your ass you'd know where it was"
Mike James
"What?"
Mike Thorton
Son, here's your weekend cup"
My Father on my wedding day when he handed me a disposable cupe full of bourbon and diet coke
Some times what people think about you is scarier than a bully-boy with a gun and creepier than home made trailer porn.
Me, Christopher Stone