One Bare Tree Gallery More Articles My Favourite Quotes by Jackie van Oostrom Here are some of my favourite quotes. I'll be adding more to this page over time. "I write because I want to make something beautiful to put into the world." - Tim Finn "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso "Whether you are painting or singing or acting or dancing, do it with passion, do it everyday and do it like you don't need the money." - John Ferrie "Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world." - Carol Katchen "Art is the one pleasure of life that we should never deny ourselves of." - anonymous "Art can make the world a magical place." - anonymous "The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion." - Pierre-Auguste Renoir "For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes." - Joan Miro "Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free." - Richard Avedon "The work of art is a scream of freedom." - Christo "As artists we are manifesting thought into reality every time we create." - Cristina Acosta "Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do." - R G Collingwood "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." - Charles Evans Hughes "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau "Happiness is living by inner purpose." - David Augsburger "Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness." - John F Carlson "A crucial purpose of art is to depict man as he might be & ought to be, & thereby provide the reader or viewer with the pleasure of contemplating, in concrete, embodied form, his abstract moral ideal ... a sense of life as exaltation, the sense of living in a clean, uplifted, benevolent world, in which the good has every chance of winning, & the evil does not have to be taken seriously." - Leonard Peikoff, 'My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand' "Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it." - Ayn Rand to Leonard Peikoff "Defeat is always momentary." - Jack Black as Carl Denham in King Kong "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand More Articles ~        ~        ~        ~        ~        ~        ~ Site Map Store Free Gallery Sneak Peek Vault ~ Entry by paid subscription only Home ~        ~        ~        ~        ~        ~        ~ Copyright©2004-2008 Jackie van Oostrom, One Bare Tree Gallery