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"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. "
- John Greenleaf Whittier
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it"
- Henry David Thoreau
"Life is pretty simple: you do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others will copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
"Ideas are like rabbits... You get a couple and learn how to handle them, pretty soon you have a dozen."
-John Steinbeck
"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume"
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- John Greenleaf Whittier
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it"
- Henry David Thoreau
"Life is pretty simple: you do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others will copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
"Ideas are like rabbits... You get a couple and learn how to handle them, pretty soon you have a dozen."
-John Steinbeck
"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume"
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What we leave behind
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just a
Art Fail
I think there are moments in every Artists life where inspiration strikes and takes over and you as the artist, your body, your hands, eyes, they are just a slave to that inspiration, driven by your creativity, and you are not really thinking about what you are doing in a concise or clear way... just giving over to the moment.... or at least that's how it is for me at times....
Sometimes those moments result in something grand, or something that lets you grow as an artist... other times its a dud...
Tonight I had such a moment...
I have been working with ink splatters and inspiration struck... I was totally into the moment... and when I go
October Series
Well - today, besides being a great holiday, marks the accomplishment of a strange and spontaneous goal I set for myself.
I don't normally use a lot of dialogue with my art, I find that I enjoy letting the viewer decide what my pieces mean to them, take what they will from it, let the work speak for itself, rather than telling the viewer what it is that I am trying to express. Sometimes people get on to me for this practice, but it is my way, I'm usually just not one for words, but today is different, and if you are reading this, I hope you find my uncharacteristic wordiness worth while.
On October 1st of this year I drew a little Jack O' L
My DasGhul Show Interview
If you are interested, I had the pleasure to be interviewed by http://dasghul.deviantart.com/ - check it out....
http://dasghul.deviantart.com/journal/Die-Ghul-Show-with-ODDITIESBYERNIE-475082644
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The first 2 are also on my list.