Nailed it!!

I love it when people stop to look at your art.

Merchandise - No You And Me

Ballad of a Thin Man

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Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it. — Confucius.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. — Confucius

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. — Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones — Confucius

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. — Erich Fromm

To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm

I believe that man must get rid of illusions that enslave and paralyze him; that he must become aware of the reality inside and outside of him in order to create a world which needs no illusions. Freedom and independence can be achieved only when the chains of illusion are broken. — Erich Fromm

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. — Hannah Arendt

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. — Rene Descartes

My Artwork=S O L D

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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. — Lao Tzu

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only practical consequence, we have to create ourselves as a work of art. — Michael Foucault

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. — Niccolò Machiavelli

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes

It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. — Bertrand Russell

All human activity is prompted by desire. — Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. — Bertrand Russell

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. — Bertrand Russell

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbours or even our relations. — Bertrand Russell

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. — Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. — Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. — Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. — Bertrand Russell

Marc Chagall, Lovers among Lilacs, 1930

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. — Bertrand Russell

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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. — Simone de Beauvoir

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly. — Simone de Beauvoir

Time is beginning to flow again. — Simone de Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them? — John Locke

For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man’s knowledge of that world. — Karl Popper

I left parts of myself everywhere The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - St. Thomas Aquinas

The things that we love tell us what we are. — St. Thomas Aquinas

No matter how black the night, if one has light within one’s vision, they are not in complete darkness. Persist. Do not lose hope. — Karl Marx

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. — Franz Kafka

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible. — Franz Kafka

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before. — Franz Kafka

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality. — Franz Kafka

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in oneself, — Franz Kafka

I’ve lost my way a little, but that doesn’t matter, because if you’ve accompanied me, then we’re both lost.

I never wish to be easily defined.