When I give art lessons, people are always saying, “But I can’t draw,” and I say, “What do you mean by that?” They say, “Well, I can’t draw like you.” And I say, “But you’re not me. So why don’t you draw from who you are? Just speak your own voice and enjoy it. Don’t try to be like Damien Hirst or don’t try to be like me. Try to just be who you are.”
~Charlie Mackesy
Quotes
Thursday Thought #HeatherTorres
If you’re saying yes to someone else’s vision,
~Heather Torres
you’re saying no to yours.
Thursday Thought #CharlesWilliamEliot
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles William Eliot
Thursday Thought #AustinKleon
Gigantic book piles aren’t a sign you’re doing it wrong;
~Austin Klein
they’re a sign that you’re doing it right.
Thursday Thought #RossGrant
Don’t let fear dress itself up as practicality.
~Ross Grant
Thursday Thought #GinaHorkey
But if you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
~Gina Hockey
Thursday Thought #MarthaCarr
May we see others as different instead of wrong and see how that makes
~Martha Carr
the fabric of our country stronger, more vibrant, more creative.
Thursday Thought #JennieAllen
Don’t give the few negative voices the bulk of your thoughts.
~Jennie Allen
Thursday Thought #FScottFitzgerald
In any case, you mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thursday Thought #MartinLutherKingJr
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
~Martin Luther King Jr.