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9/4 “A head full of fears has no room for dreams.” – Unknown
9/6 I look through the __________________ and I see _________________.
9/s The Station by Robert Hastings
9/14 – “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” - Twyla Tharp
9/16 – “The Aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward
significance.” – Aristotle
9/18 - “Art is a step from what is obvious and well known toward what is arcane and
concealed.” – Khalil Gibran
9/20 – Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. - Unknown
9/24 - "In art, the hand can never execute something higher than the heart can imagine." -Ralph
Waldo Emerson
9/26 - “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
9/30 - Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
a. Show Box video https://vimeo.com/75260457
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10/2 - “The human race is governed by its imagination.” Napoleon Bonaparte
10/4 – “Only an open mind can see something in nothing: Unknown
10/8 – “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Pablo Picasso
10/10 "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." -Thomas Merton
10/15 - [pur-suh-veer-uhns] Show –noun
a. steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of
difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
10/17 “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” - Julie Andrews
10/21 - The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new
eyes.
Marcel Proust
10/23 – “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.- John Lennon
10/25 – “Good people don’t need laws to tell them to act responsibly…. And bad people will find
a way around the law.” - Plato
10/29 - Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” Jackson Pollock – who are
you?
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*"A craftsmen knows what he's going to make, an artist doesn't know what he's going to make." -Ken
Price
"Art is both my escape and my confrontation of society." -Kokumo
2nd Quarter.
11/4 – Zentangle – Spirit Science Video
11/6 – “Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen
spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.” - Alan Watts
11/8 - Friday - There is Geometry in everything and everything in life can be reduced to a geometric
shape or form.
11/12 – Tuesday - I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo
11/14 – Thursday – “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” - Leonardo da Vinci
11/19 – Tuesday – None – Absent
11/21 – Thursday – “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can
do for your country.” – JFK
11/25 – NONE – 1 day week
12/2 – “There is nothing more interesting than people. One paints and one draws to learn to see people,
to see oneself.” – Pablo Picasso
12/4 – Video
12/6 – Video
12/10 - “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott
Adams
12/10 “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where
you start. - Nido Qubein
12/12 – “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
- St. Jerome
12/16 - The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon
12/18 – “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott
Adoms.
12/20 – “No great artist ever sees things as they truly are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.” –
Oscar Wilde.
1/7 - You can't+ depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
1/9 – “A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water.” - Unknown
1/13 “There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.” Thomas Hardy
1/15 “What is art but a way of seeing?” - Saul Bellow
1/17 - Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocles
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” MLK Jr.
1/17 – “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Unknown
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1/28 - I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. - Golda Meir
1/30++ +++++- sow day
2/3 – “The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these
living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.” Thomas Merton
2/5 - “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” –
Confucius
2/7 – “Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilized.” -Julian
Baggini
2/11 – “Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.” W. Somerset Maugham
2/13 – “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
Winston Churchill
2/17 - Transformation literally means going beyond your own form. - Wayne Dyer
2/18 - When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly
heroic transformation of consciousness. - Joseph Campbell
2/20 - In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only hope for
survival. - Stanislav Grof
2/24 - All great change in America begins at the dinner table.- Ronald Reagan
2/26 – If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou
2/28 - The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the
sails. - William Arthur Ward
3/6 – “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” - Julia Cameron
3/10 Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. - Frances Wright
3/12 - Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives. - Jane Fonda
3/14 - Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. - Joss Whedon
3/20 - Evil prospers when good men do nothing. - John Philpot Curran
3/24 - The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
3/26 – “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung
3/28 – “Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.” - Les Brown
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Possible Quotes for use as Art Starters.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. – Sophocles
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou.
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence”. - Woody Allen
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Winston Churchill
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“In America nothing dies easier than tradition.”
Russell Baker
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey