Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival ~ C S Lewis

It is in books, songs, poems, paintings which often gives us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge ~ Alain de Botton

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born ~ Anais Nin

Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting ~ Winston Churchill

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...  The truly wise person is colourblind ~ Albert Schweizer

Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself ~ George Bernard Shaw

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.  Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.  With it, there is accomplishment.  Without it there are only alibis ~ Henry Ford

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together ~ Vincent van Gogh

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind ~ Dr Seuss

Sometimes I believe in fate, but the chances we create, always seem to ring more true ~ Katie Melua

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say ~ Dr Wayne Dyer

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country ~ Anais Nin

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon.  Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different ~ Author unknown

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream ~ Vincent van Gogh

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser ~ John W Gardner

Have your cake and eat it... there is no other reason to have cake! ~ Derren Brown

All religions, arts and sciences are part of the same tree ~ Albert Einstein

There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us mere coincidence, springs from the deepest source of destiny ~ Friedrich Schiller

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities ~ Deepak Chopra

I am a night painter.  So when I come into the studio the next morning, the delirium is over.  I come into the studio very fearfully.  I creep in to see what happened the night before.  And the feeling is one of 'My goodness, did I do that?' ~ Philip Guston

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents ~ Pablo Picasso

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures.  Of these; 3,000 are still in existence ~ Wilhelm Bode

I don't say everything, but I paint everything ~ Pablo Picasso

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore,
there is society where none intrudes. 
But the deep sea, and music in its roar,
I love not man the less, but Nature more. 
From these our interviews, in which I steal from all I may be,
or have been before, to mingle with the Universe,
and feel what I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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