Michele Cassou Quotes

#1. Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks.

Phil Robertson

#2. I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

Neil Gaiman

#3. There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

John Rawls

#4. Keep your heart and mind steady on your dreams. Ask God for guidance and wisdom to help you fulfill your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

Apolo Ohno

#6. Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

Christopher Lasch

#7. When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

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#8. If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

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#9. We have within us enormous reserves of trapped potential. Our natural urges have been so constrained by the accommodations of living that we each have a smoldering volcano just below the surface. To enable this force to erupt in a healthy, open, and positive manner is a momentous act.

Michele Cassou

#10. After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

Darynda Jones

#11. I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

Marianne Faithfull

#12. Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Kahlil Gibran

#13. You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

Michele Cassou

#14. Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

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#15. When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.

Michele Cassou

#16. People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

Haruki Murakami

#17. There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing.

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#18. He hooked his fingers under the seat of my chair, dragging me closer to him.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#19. If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

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#20. The unfolding of the unexpected becomes the energy that drives you. You discover how thirsty you are for exploration without analysis. You become strangely at home in a place you can't define. You are truly creating.

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#21. Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

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#22. Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

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#23. When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

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#24. It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

Michele Cassou

#25. Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Troy Dumais

#26. Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

Michele Cassou

#27. When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

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#28. To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

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#29. Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

Michele Cassou