As we continue celebrating our one year anniversary, I’ve been doodling and noodling about the past year. About the lessons we learned and the lessons we need to learn.
The goal is awareness and improvement, not flagellation and punishment.
Many of these lessons are best summed up in the following quotes by minds far wiser than my own:
“Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse
“I take a breath when I have to.” Ethel Merman
“Every piece I create is a reflection of the moment in time in which it was made.” Alexander Calder
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” A. A. Milne
“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” Marc Chagall
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” Voltaire
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” Oscar Wilde
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again…” Theodore Roosevelt
“Practice what you know and it will help you to make clear what you do not know.”
Rembrandt
While these don’t cover every lesson, they cover the biggies.
For me anyway. Maybe for you too.
Thanks for reading!
Clint
P.S. What are some of your favorite Words Of Wisdom?
Roosevelt's quote about the man in the arena gets me every single time. I first heard it on a Brene Brown podcast and I have never looked at it in the same way.