Midweek Meditation (Restart)

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life." 
  ~  Julius Caesar, Born July 12 or 13, 100 B.C.




Previous Midweek Meditation: (Nature) Midweek Meditation

(Nature) Midweek Meditation

"Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds..."                                 ~  Frances Hodgson Burnette, THE SECRET GARDEN

Midweek Meditation

"There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them."  ~ Henri Matisse

Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908

Still Life with Geraniums, 1910

Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones, 1944

The Plum Blossoms, 1948

(Please, see some flowers today!)

Midweek Meditation -- Churchill Style

Churchill Painting at the Easel, Simon Brushfield

"At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat."  ~ Winston Churchill

My last "Colorwork Meditation" (#13) focused on black.  I planned (and I still do plan) that my next "Colorwork Meditation" (#14) will focus on white.  

Funny thing is...  I have started that "colorwork"-post-to-be twice, and it still is not happening...  Truthfully, now that I have spent all that time searching for quotes on "white", I have found that a lot of them are actually quotes on "white and black" or "black and white".  And, many are not so much about art as about racial relations (which is understandable) but I do not remember this (at all) when searching for "black" quotes. 

(Maybe it's me and my searching?)

At this point, I would suggest that it does make a difference if you search for "white quotes" or "quotes on the color white" or even "artist's quotes on the color white". 

Funny thing is... when I last went searching... I came upon the above quote by Winston Churchill.  I never knew that Churchill painted.

That finding lead to this:  "Although he is best known for his service as prime minister of Great Britain during World War II, Churchill was also a painter and produced many works of art over his lifetime."

A Room at Breccles, Winston Churchill

Daybreak at Cassis, Winston Churchill

And then, I saw this: 

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favor of the war effort, he simply replied,

"Then what are we fighting for?"

(Top) Image credit:  http://simonbrushfield.com/paintings-by-adolf-hitler-and-winston-churchill-the-art-of-war/churchill-painting-at-the-easel/ 

Churchill's paintings:  https://www.google.com/?trackid=sp-006#q=winston+churchill+artwork

Midweek Meditation

"A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it."    ~ Brenda Laurel

A couple of my designs will be finished/used very soon!

Midweek Meditation

The part about knitting a sweater in the lyrics of "When I'm Sixty-Four":

"I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?"

"When I'm Sixty-Four" is track #9 off The Beatles' eighth studio album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".  It was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

I love that album.  I miss album cover art.  St Pepper's was released on June 1, 1967, when I was very young.  Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942.  Today is his 72nd birthday.

Photo credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band#mediaviewer/File:Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band.jpg

Midweek Meditation

“If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life— that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment— that would be the perfect state.”   
                               ~  Cate Blanchett, born May 14, 1969

This was one of several stars that I photographed on February 9, 2014.  In March, Cate Blanchett won her second Academy Award for her role in Blue Jasmine.  (I would recommend watching this film.  I truly enjoyed her performance.)

Midweek Meditation

  "Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."   
    
                                            ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss, on his engagement

Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician, was born on April 30, 1777.

Photo Credit:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/12915907335 

Midweeek Meditation

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”   ~ Oscar Wilde, born October 16, 1854

Midweek Meditation

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."   ~ Albert Einstein

(This week I am featuring the number 2.  ☺)