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“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

“A picture is a poem without words” – Horace

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss

“There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso

“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“Every artist was first an amateur” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” – Bob Ross

“Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” – Albert Einstein

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James Whistler

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.” – Pablo Picasso

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

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My Favorite Graphite Pencils

by Cathleen | Apr 4, 2019

Since my first and favorite medium is graphite, I thought I'd start off my new blog with a discussion on my favorite graphite pencils. Over time I've been able to try out several brands. Originally when I started the journey to doing professional fine art I wanted to...

New Design and Updates 2019

by Cathleen | Apr 1, 2019

It's April first, but it's no joke today. Today I officially go live with my new website design and store! I am excited with this new take on the original version of my website and I've worked hard all through the month of March creating it. Why now? The reason I...