“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

-Pablo Picasso

The sentiment not only applies to art but it speaks to utilizing creativity in all aspects of our lives. However, from the time we are old enough to understand, it is beaten into our skulls that grown ups don’t do certain things. They don’t color, they don’t play, and they especially don’t try new ideas all “willy-nilly.”

Is there anyone of you that has tapped  into the creative energy that you had in the third grade and added it to your work or your life? What were the results?

This photo was taken earlier this year by @Haziq at the Leonardo “Hand of the Genius” exhibit at the High museum of Atlanta.

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come;

you have to get up and make them.

- Madame C. J. Walker

“Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead.  A sort of
indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is
no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process,
an ever-renewing process.”

-Bruce Lee via Be. Moore (Bruce Leroy)

People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.

-Frank Sinatra

I’m a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

Mos Def

You will never find time for anything.  If you want time you must make it.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

-Studs Terkel

Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you’ll never make history.- Ben Sobel

I try to believe like I believed when I was five…when your heart tells you everything you need to know.”

-Lucy Liu

The heights by great men reached and kept,

Were not obtained by sudden flight

But they, while their companions slept,

Were toiling upward in the night.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow