ART INSPIRATION Pablo Picasso
Art Deco INSPIRATION A.M. Cassandre
Celebrating the Birth of Jazz 8/1/19
When the Angels of Possibility
Prevailed upon the Lord of the Cosmos
To allow the element of chance
To play with the laws of necessity
Down deep in the pocket
Of the newly formed Universe
They could not have known
Exactly how things would turn out.
But they knew for sure
That sooner or later
The music of the spheres
Was going to get
A lot more interesting
When all those quarks and leptons
Started doing their subatomic dance
To a funky second line beat.
That's why the Angels of Possibility
Gather together every April
In the city of New Orleans
To celebrate their achievement …
And it took only 13.7 billion years
Which in cosmic terms is nothing at all.
Reece Burka
INSPIRATION
"Jazz musicians have dance in them, and jazz dancers have music in them, or jazz doesn't happen." ~Sidney Bechet
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul." ~ Martha Graham
“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.” ~Duke Ellington
”I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”
~Thelonious Monk
“Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.”
"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."
~Rumi
"...always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others." ~Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.” ~ Martha Graham (1894-1991)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ~Pablo Picasso
"Preserve history, known not lost. Art lives through civilizations" ~Uknown
"The Life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization." ~JFK
"Act instead of intellectualize" ~Unknown
"The ego has been distorted so that it loves to pontificate and to excuse so that personal responsibility can be avoided." ~Unknown
"Become that which you desire, through meditation" ~Unknown
"Empty feelings leave one searching for challenging experiences"~ New Paradigm
"There’s something about having another human being holding space while you do your work that is simply invaluable…….And above all, don’t fall for the delusion that says you have to go it alone. Help is right there for the asking and we need you to be as whole and as real as you can be because the more of us who are doing the work, the better our chances at making this Great Transition a good one.
~D.K. Brainard
"Tus sentimientos se exaltan y estras amorosa/o y muy sensible. Se alborota tu apetito y se te antojan todo tipo de bocadillos o tacos." ~Unknown
Jacob Faust RIP