{"quotes":[{"text":"Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","artwork","awareness","congruence","consciousness","create","divine","divinity","effort","experience","feeling","flow","good","hands","honest","intent","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","labor","manual-labor","mindfulness","moment","origin","physical","play","power-of-now","prerequisite","present","quote","requirement","sincere","sincerely","soul","transcend","transcendence","universe","work"],"id":36833,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out!","author":"Chinonye J. Chidolue","tags":["art","art","art-work","artwork","back-is-beautiful","beautiful-rebels","black","black-and-white","black-folks","black-history","black-is-beautiful","black-people","black-pride","blacks","canvas-of-life","canvas-of-the-mind","chinonye-j-chidolue","hey-maker","maker","maker","maude","racism","rebel","rebel-of-the-sands"],"id":39685,"author_id":"Chinonye+J.+Chidolue"},{"text":"Let's always try to paint the truth ... Our art must be made to mean something.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","art-and-artists","artist","arts-and-humanities","artsy","artwork","creative-people","creativity","gadfly","goals","humanities","idealism","inspirational","meaning","meaning-of-art","motivational","priorities","purpose","search-for-truth","truth"],"id":43065,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"The best art is not always the most popular art, and the most popular art is never truly the best art. The best art is that which is streamed through God. And the worst art is that which is void of God. The master artist of the universe is the Creator of All Things, and his reflection is in all of us. Only the artist who is aware that he is a reflection of that greatness, and that creativity is supreme love, is a true divine artist. Even if he is not the most popular artist, he will be very popular among the stars of His universe. That is the master artist, one who uses his talents to serve as a vehicle of God. In his work, you hear God's voice and see with His eyes.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["art","artist","artistry","artwork","beautiful","beauty","best-art","creation","creative","creativity","eyes","gifts","god","godliness","grace","heart","his-eyes","love","master-artist","popular","popularity","serve","stars","stream","streamed","supreme-love","talents","truth","ugly-art","universe","vehicle-of-god","voice","void-of-god","wisdom","worst-art"],"id":48070,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I think sometimes in artwork or writing or music, you discover something that just needs to be created. It’s not even something that you want to create... You’re just pulled into it like an instrument. Like you’re part of a bigger plan.","author":"Danika Stone","tags":["art","artwork","creativity","divine","flow","music"],"id":104454,"author_id":"Danika+Stone"},{"text":"We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["alchemists","art","artists","artwork","aurous","choice","choose","chose","comprehend","equal","equivalence","equivalent","explain","explanation","fork","glass","glassmaker","gold","help","human-experience","interpret","interpretation","interpretation","interpreter","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","language","limit","limitation","linguistics","mirror","paraphrase","poets","portray","read","reading","reality","reflection","restate","reveal","road","shortcoming","simplify","speak","talk","told","translating","translation","translation","translator","transmute","truth","understand","words","write","writer","writers","writing","writing"],"id":132339,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["art","artwork","complexity-of-thought","self-awareness","self-realization","stress"],"id":134926,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"},{"text":"Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["art","artwork","beautiful","canvas","inspiration","life","lifestyle","masterpiece","motivation","painting","suzy-kassem"],"id":214262,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["art","artist","artwork","beautiful","beautiful-in-your-own-skin","beauty","being","celebrate-yourself","copies","copy","copying-others","different","follower","human","imitate","innovate","inspiration","life","life","life-saying","love-yourself","nonconformity","original","originals","originate","own-skin","rebel","respect-yourself","sayings","self-love","sell","true","unique"],"id":248521,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["art","artwork","frame"],"id":257505,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}