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As a limo driver a client remarked "you must know this road like the back of your hand"
I replied when I do will hang up my keys to be that confident may allow me to make a mistake.
From an ordinary man (aka D.B, 2010 Feb 10)
"I found with the exercises, I allowed myself to go a further distance with my imagination.
I can’t imagine my life without painting. It fuels me!!

Barbara Jeanne Simpson (February 2010)
All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not.
The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting.
It's now hanging in our den. (With Gratitude to www.robertgenn.com)
"I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir."
Vincent van Gogh

"I truly trust in creativity to be a great release, a form of therapy, of healing within, and a connection with my Higher Power."
Barbara Jeanne Simpson December 2007
"The road of an artist is long and hard, many personal sacrifices are made along the way." My Mom, October 2006
"Follow your heart. Dreams come true." Barbara Jeanne Simpson 1998
"Be who you are." Barbara Jeanne Simpson 2002
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world
to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower.
I want them to see it whether they want to or not. Georgia O'Keeffe
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary;
and it is they alone who are masters."
Paul Gauguin
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh

"In order to be a painter, you need to know how to paint, and when to stop." Pablo Picasso

"Painting is another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." Edward Hopper

"Art, the visual communication or carefree expression revealed in an abstract, realistic or other means
through painting, photography or other creative genre."
Barbara Jeanne Simpson 2006


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