| "I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious" ~ Andrew Wyeth "Art is literacy of the heart" ~ Elliot Eisner "Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us." ~ Roy Adzak "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." ~ Francis Bacon "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." ~ Paul Cézanne |
| “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” - Robert Louis Stevenson The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity . . . and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. - William Blake |
| “Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.” - Harvey MacKay “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.” - Kahlil Gibran "Everything Changes, Everything Falls Apart..." - Sarah Maclachlan song lyrics. "It was propped against the collar box and I lay listening to it. Hearing it, that is. I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear." -William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury "We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it." -Claude Shannon “You can't turn back the clock but you can wind it up again” - Bonnie Prudden Time is... Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love... Time is eternity. |
“A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy." ― Rumer Godden "Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world." - Ada Louise Huxtable "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." - Sam Keen "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely, and more temperate, Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May..." - William Shakespeare |
| "Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc) |
| Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~Kenko Yoshida In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. ~Thomas Carlyle Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes |
| “The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.” |
| An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. Pierre Corneille |
| “This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.” Susan Polis Schutz |
| “All of life is a journey. Which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.” “The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.” J.R.R. Tolkien. "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending...” - Maria Robinson |
| "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
| If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~Karl Kraus I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~James Michener Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| There are some amazingly talented people on DA and these are my particular favourites! I tend to fave a lot of redheads, forests, mazes, topiary, sundials, gardens, toadstools, cats, cute wild animals, ballet themed shots, landscapes, blue and purple flowers, sculptures and artistic nudes, but there are a lot of other themes to be found in my favourite's folder! Enter...and enjoy... |
| What can I say? I've always had a thing for redheads, finding them beautiful, mysterious and alluring, and particularly tend to favour long-haired, dreamy/wistful looking models! If you like that look too I am sure you will enjoy the contents of this folder... |
| A tribute to one of my favourite movies ever...the beautifully haunting Picnic at Hanging Rock by Peter Weir. Quotes - Miranda: Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place. Miranda: What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream. Sara: Miranda knows lots of things other people don't know. Secrets. She knew she wouldn't come back. Mlle. de Poitiers: Ah! Now I know. Miss McCraw: What do you know? Mlle. de Poitiers: I know that Miranda is a Botticelli angel. A very basic piece of music I composed in tribute to this excellent movie - [link] |
DonateThis donation pool was original set up to raise funds for a year's subscription. Then as a response to my journal entry about it, my lovely friend  gave me a year's subscription!  So, I shall keep the donation pool open but the points will probably go towards prizes for my next contest! So with that in mind, any points would be most appreciated.  |
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| Would you like a One of a Kind Fairy, mermaid, baby, or any other sculpture, created especially for you? You can choose theme, hair colour/style, wing colour/style etc. I've sculpted sleeping fairies, Egyptian themed fairies, male fairies, Halloween fairies, to name but a few... Just note me for details!  Also check out my website for examples of my work - [link] Also here -       |
| "To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour..." - William Blake Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC) Everything begins and ends, at exactly the right time and place... - Picnic At Hanging Rock Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? - Edgar Allan Poe Fill yourself with desire and see only illusion, Empty yourself of desire and understand the great mystery of things. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Do not fear to hope, for every time we smell the autumn's dying scent, we know the primrose time will come again. - Samuel Coleridge |
 Thanks to ~sevengraphs for the use of the above image. |
I am just sooo in love with this character, from the brilliant period drama North and South, played by the very talented (and yummy!) Richard Armitage...     Credit for these fab GIFs goes to  |
You could let me know though, I'm good at keeping a secret 
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