Cats and Truth
This is today's Zaadz motivational quote from Denis Waitley, a personal development expert:
“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
I like this quote, but I'm kind of caught in the middle here. I create beauty through my art, but my paintings are material objects. Certainly I want people to collect my work so I can continue to make a living, but on the other hand, I don't want to contribute to an accumulation of unnecessary stuff. Which, once again, begs the question, is art necessary? You, too, can receive daily, weekly, or monthly inspirational quotes in your e-mail box by signing up at Zaadz.com.
Nelson impulsively ran up one of the trees in the backyard this afternoon, and I was there to catch it on film . . . or in pixels, rather. It's so funny when they do that and then can't figure out how they're going to get down. Then they see me below, laughing and taking pictures, and they try to act cool, like this is what they had intended to do all along. It's very cute.
I like to watch the crows on the telephone wires at dusk, calling to each other.
I used to think they were facing the setting sun, but then I discovered that they face into the wind. Hundreds of them gather here every night, but once it's dark, they're gone, and I always wonder where they all go. Do they disappear into the trees?
“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
I like this quote, but I'm kind of caught in the middle here. I create beauty through my art, but my paintings are material objects. Certainly I want people to collect my work so I can continue to make a living, but on the other hand, I don't want to contribute to an accumulation of unnecessary stuff. Which, once again, begs the question, is art necessary? You, too, can receive daily, weekly, or monthly inspirational quotes in your e-mail box by signing up at Zaadz.com.
Nelson impulsively ran up one of the trees in the backyard this afternoon, and I was there to catch it on film . . . or in pixels, rather. It's so funny when they do that and then can't figure out how they're going to get down. Then they see me below, laughing and taking pictures, and they try to act cool, like this is what they had intended to do all along. It's very cute.
I like to watch the crows on the telephone wires at dusk, calling to each other.
I used to think they were facing the setting sun, but then I discovered that they face into the wind. Hundreds of them gather here every night, but once it's dark, they're gone, and I always wonder where they all go. Do they disappear into the trees?
posted by Cassandra at 4:41 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Cassandra,
That which you evoke through your artwork is an expression of something that is much more than a material object.
I believe that the same also applies to our physical being. We, and the objects we create, are here to express that-whatever it is.
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