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Nature possesses far more variation and invention than we do... for an artist, it's a matter of seeing and choosing. (Mark Adams)
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. (Scott Adams)
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty. (Christopher Alexander)
A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. (James Allen)
It is better to choose what you say than say what you choose. (Anonymous)
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. (Aristotle)
Every act is a visual judgement. (Rudolf Arnheim)
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened... You can decide which type of person you want to be. (Mary Kay Ash)
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. (Kevyn Aucoin)
The world would be a boring place if we were not fortunate to have choices. (Kenn Backhaus)
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live - now. (Joan Baez)
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. (Darby Bannard)
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. (Darby Bannard)
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. (Frank X Barron)
In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic. (Robert Bateman)
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. (Lord Beaverbrook)
You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. (Robert F. Bennett)
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. (A. C. Benson)
We are lucky that our fantasy is for the picking. We can go back in time, stand still, or go forward. (Lida van Bers)
decide, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. (Ambrose Bierce)
The decisive moment is not about finding the best view. It is somewhere in the actual painting process where critical decisions must be made. (Linda Blondheim)
You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds. (Barbara Bloom)
It would be fascinating to wire up an artist with electrodes to measure exactly how many choices must be made during the process of creation. (Francis Boag)
It is good to re-examine our positions to make sure if our choices are the right ones for us, as long as we do not spend the majority of our lives in this potentially counterproductive activity. (Kelly Borsheim)
Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives, and to think and speak about other people in a way that is honoring or dishonoring. What choice are you going to make today? (Gregg Braden)
Those who avoid the tough choices of life live a life they never chose. (Robert Brault)
At any moment I could start being a better person... But, which moment should I choose? (Ashleigh Brilliant)
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. (Robert Browning)
There is a tension in deciding what to choose from the real landscape and what to say about it. (Marion Bryant)
It was purely a decision about 'Did I want to stay around or did I want to go? It's one of the few things where you have choice. (Art Buchwald)
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.' (Pearl S. Buck)
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? (Elias Canetti)
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. (Thomas Carlyle)
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. (Carlos Castaneda)
Once you make a choice, you have no choice. (Anna Chin-Williams)
The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives. (Deepak Chopra)
The cropping and selecting of a close-up image reflects the larger compositional thinking that formed the original image. (Peter Ciccariello)
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. (Gary Collins)
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. (Roald Dahl)
Sometimes the sweetest choice is choosing what you already have. (Jeff Davidson)
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
My paintings are made up of what remains after eliminating everything unwanted. (Alan Feltus)
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. (Sigmund Freud)
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. (Robert Fritz)
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Kahlil Gibran)
-Stumbling on Happiness...
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. (Malcolm Gladwell)
True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe. (Samuel Goldwyn)
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. (Buddy Hackett)
There is always another way of seeing and another way of interpreting. (Kiff Holland)
In chess you learn that in all your potential moves there is just one move that ends up ruling your game. As you can't go back, this is excellent training. (Henk Jelsma)
To be fully conscious means we have to make conscious choices. If we feel we are stuck in the energy of an undesirable habit, at some level we have actually chosen to give our power to it. Perhaps now's the time to choose another way - we can choose to take our power back. (Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones)
It is maybe not the best choice to have a favorite anything. (Dalai Lama)
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade. (Langenhoven)
-of the band Rush...
Even if you choose not to decide... you still have made a choice. (Geddy Lee)
The most profitable decisions in my life will be the most challenging. (John Di Lemme)
Every good artist has a good eraser. (Skip Van Lenten)
An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist. (Eric Maisel)
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function. (Eric Maisel)
-on drawing...
Leave out as much as you include. (Mick Maslen)
Decision is a sharp knife that cut clean and straight. Indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind. (Ian McKeithen)
Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do. (Mencius)
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. (Thomas Merton)
Every picture one paints involves not painting others. (Robert Motherwell)
Each brushstroke is a decision. (Robert Motherwell)
Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. (Caroline Myss)
Paint the picture. Whatever is in front of you. (Roberta Needles)
An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. (Anais Nin)
I see painting as being an issue of choices and a giving up of a desire to control. (Bobbie Oliver)
You must have a feeling for choice. (Egbert Oudendag)
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation. (Walter J. Phillips)
For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing. (Pablo Picasso)
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. (Pythagoras)
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. (Ayn Rand)
Realize that as an artist you have the power to select or reject. Use the scene before you only as a starting point. (Ron Ranson)
Replace negative thoughts with positive affirmations. Our minds can handle one or the other and it is our choice. (Chris Riley)
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. (Anthony Robbins)
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. (Auguste Rodin)
We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life. (Jim Rohn)
Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions. (Jim Rohn)
Either you run the day or the day runs you. (Jim Rohn)
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. (Jim Rohn)
Somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. (Theodore Roosevelt)
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. (J. K. Rowlings)
There is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. (Muriel Rukeyser)
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. (David Russell)
I choose to be the creator in bliss rather than the tormented artist... It's a choice and a matter of how much we identify with external circumstances. It can also depend on how we care for ourselves. (Linda Saccoccio)
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone. (Richard Schmid)
I make choices that help create emotion by taking time to consider what visual information is important to the statement and what is distracting. (Hal Scroggy)
Nature is at work... Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. (David Seabury)
This is the night / That either makes me or fordoes me quite. (William Shakespeare)
Be it sun or moon or what you please. (William Shakespeare)
Never, never give up; just change your mind! (Doreen Shann)
We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
I am always on the lookout for a spark of necessity - a feeling that this particular artist had no choice but to make this particular artwork this particular way. That is the only way authenticity or even originality can start to emerge. (Roberta Smith)
You have brains in your head. / You have feet in your shoes. / You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. / You're on your own. / And you know what you know. / You are the guy who'll decide where to go. (Dr. Suess)
Selection is the basis of all art. Nothing comes of nothing. (James Johnson Sweeney)
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. (Paul Tillich)
-Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
After the "mindmapping" is "selection." I call it the tyranny of choice... (Richard Tomkinson)
Choose wisely. (Brian Tracy)
You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all. (Brian Tracy)
Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life. (Anne Truitt)
Going painting is like swimming; you have to choose the direction of your path and how far you will go. If your choice is to connect the two coasts, you have to master enough courage and power because it is too late returning at the halfway mark. (Milos Vujasinovic)
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. (Denis Waitley)
Choice is strength. Having choice is also freedom. (Coulter Watt)
The making of the painting is the visible, practical aspect of the painter's working at the easel or board. This step is not as experimental as selecting convictions and choosing method. Here is where the battle is fought, for better or worse. (Frank Webb)
Some rainy winter Sunday when there's a little boredom, you should carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice. (Lina Wertmuller)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. (Flora Whittemore)
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day. (Marianne Williamson)
Nothing happens until you decide. (Oprah Winfrey)
Early in my career I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility - I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
If we remain undecided, nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice. (Mike Young)
Nothing is carved in stone unless that is what you choose. (Banne Younker)
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