Shanley

"The remedy to fire is fire"- a swahili proverb.
Tough situations ask for tough decisions...

chirping1

"Art washes from the soul the dust of every day life"

I find this so true. There has been many a time I've made pictures on TD to help relieve difficult times in my life. If it doesn't cleanse them away completely, it at least makes them bearable.

clrmered

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands - it lies in his power to create them... - Leonardo Da Vinci

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Pablo Picasso:

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general; if you are a monk, you will become Pope." Instead I was a painter and became Picasso.

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Another found on AWAD, from photographer Ansel Adams:

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.