Every canvas is a journey all its own.
Helen FrankenthalerRead
There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it.
Interpretation
Sometimes what seems like an accident is actually an opportunity shaped by who you are.
This quote by Helen Frankenthaler emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and personal agency in recognizing and acting on opportunities. While some events may appear random or accidental, it is our unique traits, such as intelligence and energy, that enable us to identify these moments and take meaningful action, transforming them from mere chance into significant experiences.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing change and opportunities.
Every canvas is a journey all its own.
I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, _x000D_ but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, _x000D_ to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, _x000D_ and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
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