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Words to Live By
The right words at the right time, especially if they‘re from the right person, make all the difference to the creative process, and to life.
Here are a few of my favorites, with a wish that they inspire you as well….
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- “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- Albert Einstein
- “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
- John Lubbock
- “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
- Rachel Carson
- “The earth laughs in flowers.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
- Henry David Thoreau
- “Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires... courage.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
- Richard Feynman
- “Failure is an excellent teacher.”
- Francis McKee
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.”
- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
- “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
- Andy Warhol
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
- Pablo Picasso
- “Drawing is the root of everything!”
- Vincent van Gogh
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Originally posted: August 2025
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