I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. Jean Nidetch

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. John F. Kennedy

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg

So here is another 5x5 mini.These are fun little paintings.

Oil on canvas 5x5

One must not lose desires

Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. Alexander A. Bogomoletz

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao-tzu

Oil on canvas panel 11x14

And remember

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Earl Mac Rauch

Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell

This may resemble another painting that you saw on here recently, however, it is not the same one. This one is a miniature, 5x5. I have painted several miniatures for an upcoming show.... and I will paint more.

Oil on Canvas 5x5

I realized that If I had to choose

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker

It was another fine day today ... sunny and warm. It's been in the 60's here... can't ask for better than that. Finished off the painting of the river ... I love the river and it's rushing waters.

Oil on canvas on Masonite 9x12

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy

Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others. Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. Edith Sitwell

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington

Monochromatic Oil on canvas 5x5

The secret of happiness

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. - Al Batt

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer

Oil on canvas 5x5

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Love is a great beautifier. - Louisa May Alcott

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. - Edmund Burke

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. - Woody Allen

Not to be exact and not knowing much at all I present to you .....

Oil on canvas 3.5x7

There is no remedy

A heart that loves is always young. Greek proverb

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Ettiene De Grellet

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

Oil on Masonite panel 9x12

Real Security

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you. - Mae West

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren

To me old age is always 25 ears older than I am - Unocchio

Oil on Masonite panel 9x12

Do your best work

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. Abraham Lincoln

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy. Bob Ross

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living. Charles Reynolds Brown

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. David McCullough

Oil on canvas board 9x12

Everything should be made as simple as possible

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.  Henry David Thoreau

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.   Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. Jim Horning

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

Oil on Canvas Board 9x12

Men are born to succeed, not fail

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. Joy Page

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana

Men are born to succeed, not fail. Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. Henry David Thoreau

Oil on canvas Board 9x12

Change is such hard work

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

Change is such hard work. Billy Crystal

Oil on Masonite 9x12

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams

Be all that you can be, but don't join the army.-Paul Guttman

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -The Dockle Bur

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society. Henry David Thoreau

I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap. Casper Van Dien

Oil on 8x10 Panel

Life is an experiment

There is no such thing as expecting too much. -Susan Cheever

You really never lose until you stop trying. -Mike Ditka

 A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. -  James Allen


All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oil on canvas Board 6x8

We are much Happier

We are much happier,
much happier
when we realize
that life is an opportunity rather
than an obligation. -Mary Augustine

No man is happy unless he believes he is. -Publilus Syrus

The habit of happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest for creating things new. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau

Oil on Canvas board 9x12

It;s all been said before

All that I know I learned after I was thirty. Georges Clemenceau

.... and none of that sunk in until after I was 50. Unocchio

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger

.....and for those of us who do not read the fine print ..... Unocchio

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide

With that said, we might as will tip back a cool one ......

Oil on canvas board 9x12

A Mind Stretched by a new experience

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are going.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

An Asian vase makes a great centerpiece for a still life so here it is.... there was a lot more to this one than just the vase :-)

Oil on a panel 8x10

As long as you can start

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. -Ernest Hemingway

The difference between good and great is just a little effort.-Duffy Daugherty

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. -Henry C. Link

So today we prepared for a presentation ... then painted a picture. Both were adventurous ....

Makes me think of the Springtime when the apple blossoms are on the trees. We may not get any this year since the warm winter hung in there so long.

Oil on canvas  9x12

Create an exciting circle

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. - -Fred Shero

It is known that happy people think more happy thoughts than unhappy people. If we think happy thoughts... we create happy perceptions... we create a beautiful aura of light around ourselves... which leads us to happy events. And so we create an exciting circle (where we become even happier).

Still working with a limited pallet ..... we always like a friend cow 8-)

Oil on canvas board 6x8