Melissa

All artwork should be considered protected by copyright. Any use without my permission is prohibited. Thank you.

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I'm proud to also announce that at this time, a few pieces are generously on display on Marc Pitman's Professional Art Website @ PitArt .

Interests: Thinking About Things, Good Conversation + Debates, Volunteer Work, Reading, Drawing + Painting in Various Mediums (click "view more pics" & look below and in my blog for examples), Increasing my Drawing Abilities, Writing (see blog for examples), Math + Science, Overcast Days, Astronomy + The Ambiance of Night, The Shapes of Clouds + Hues of Sunset, Taking Long Walks + Observing Trees, Penpaling, Cooking, Healthy Eating, Movies, Collecting Music, Shopping, The Net, The Sound and Feel of Laughter, Having Fun, Improving Myself as a Person, Enjoying Thunderstorms + The Melody of Rain.

I shut my eyes in order to see. ~Paul Gauguin

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. ~ Claude Monet

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. ~ Vincent van Gogh

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ~ Issac Newton

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. ~George Santayana

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust

You can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Saint-Exupry

Everyone sees the big things. But these smaller things are so beautiful and people might not notice them if I didn't emphasize them. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust. ~ George Bellows

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life. ~ Diego Rivera

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. ~ Ad Reinhardt

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist is the confidant of nature. Flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ~ Auguste Rodin

When the artist is alive in any person . . . he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for better understanding. ~ Robert Henri

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. ~ Piet Mondrian

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. ~ George Bellows

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. ~Henry David Thoreau

Love is doing small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. ~ Thomas Dewar

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ~ Albert Einstein

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss (via Elena)

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.~Joseph Addison

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.~ William Blake

Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~Richard Wagner

Joy is a net of love that captures souls. ~Mother Teresa

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ~Christopher Reeve

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~Goethe

A smile is a curve that sets things straight. ~Author unknown

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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All artwork should be considered protected by copyright. Any use without my permission is prohibited. Thank you.