There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances.
But the only time that is surely yours is the present.
Grenville Kleiser.
Found over on Cobalt Violet’s blog, a blog I strongly recommend you wander over and visit.
The house is a metaphor for the self, of course, but it is also totally real. And a foreign house exaggerates all the associations houses carry.
Frances Mayes, extracted from Under the Tuscan Sun.
I love the words I find written in Frances Mayes book, Under the Tuscan Sun. I’ve been carrying this book with me, wherever I move, since before moving to Te Anau, New Zealand, and that was way back before 1999.
The book is so veryvery different to the movie. My idea is that the book is for writers and dreamers, while the movie is a straight out chick flick ... humble opionion, of course.
This sign has been in the window of a restaurant I pass by ... since forever.
Since forever loosely translates as ‘as long as I’ve been living in Antwerpen.
I love it. And don’t even mind that the window’s a bit dirty. Must eat there one day, then I can write all about it.
I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.
David Bowie.
Loved this. Felt like I could gift it to Gert, that Belgian bloke of mine.
Thanks to the marvellously inspiring Leonie Wise for the quote.
I need to buy this one day, although I feel like my mother taught me a lot of it ...
Ridicule is a terrible whitherer of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Found over on David du Chemin’s blog ... brilliant post. He is writing wise words from his hospital bed in these days. He pulled me in when I read, ‘I don’t know a single artist that doesn’t wrestle with cycles of self-doubt, second-guesses ...”
He, in turn, linked over to Vincent Versace
I loved so much of his article too ... a slice: Every image you create is an expression of the artistic inspiration that moves you. You express your creative voice by developing the ability to show what moves you without screaming for the attention of others. It means getting out of your own way and, in the moments when your creative spirit is moved, trusting that what comes from those moments will be good. Your goal should be to trust what you feel and constantly strive toward personal excellence and elegant performance. When your effectiveness becomes effortless, your images will move the viewer solely by the power that caused you to be moved.