Music from 'A New Plateau' by Demain Dorelli
"The true knowing is not knowing"
"The Creative Process is what is between YOU & YOU"
"Painting is meditation in action, active surrendering"
"If you keep accepting the moment that IS, it allows the deeper part of yourself to come out"
"Paintings don't have problems, only painters have."
"The Creative Process is what happens when you express your feelings and let go of right and wrong."
"Point Zero painting is being in this moment and flowing with what is there."
Michele Cassou
www.michelecassou.com
'Change doesn't come from the top. Change comes from mobilised grass-roots' Barack Obama
"What you want wants you" Rumi
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world" Anne Frank
"The real trick to life is not to be in the know but to be in the mystery" What the Bleep Do We Know!?
www.thebleep.co.uk
"'The Element' is about all of us finding that passion which will give our lives more meaning and purpose. We need a shift of perspective, to understand that in order to do better for ourselves and for our children, we have to think differently about our own capacities and creativity and to create a new paradigm for education... Let's create the platform for change together." Sir Ken Robinson
www.sirkenrobinson.com
"Our Vision is of a United Kingdom where the lives of all citizens are enhanced by the experience of excellent cultural and artistic activities, where artistic endeavor and achievement are highly prized and where the creative potential of every man, woman and child is realized." A Manifesto for the Arts published by National Campaign for the Arts
www.artscampaign.org.uk
'The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind - computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people - artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers - will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.' Daniel H Pink
'What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? You have a mind and you have other people. Start with them and change the world.' Liz Coleman
"How can one learn the truth by thinking? As one learns to see a face better if one draws it." Ludwig Wittgenstein
"There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work, which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so…. Mysteries have to be respected if they are to retain their power." Georges Braque
Heuristic:
General meaning: serving to guide, discover, or reveal;
Specific meaning: a rule valuable for research but unproved or incapable of proof.
"River was river, and if the One and Divine in Siddhartha secretly lived in blue and river, it was just the divine art and intention that there should be yellow and blue, there sky and wood - and here Siddhartha. Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them." Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
"The question is who is interested in creativity? And my answer is that practically everybody is. This interest is no longer confined to psychologists and psychiatrists. Now it has become a question of national and international policy as well" The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, 1976, Abraham Maslow
'Creating beauty, telling stories, inventing new stuff, caring for others, playing games, and searching for meaning are all part of what it means to be human.' Daniel H Pink
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought" Buddha
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions" Albert Einstein
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
Leonard Cohen
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve." W. Clement Stone
"What you resist persists." Carl Jung
"All power is from within and is therefore under your own control" Robert Collier
"Whether you think you can or can't either way you are right." Henry Ford
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step" Dr Martin Luther King Jr
"You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." Alexander Graham Bell
"Aesthetics matter. Attractive things work better." Don Norman (Engineering Professor)
"Whatever you're thinking and feeling today is creating your Future…Your thoughts and your feelings create your life."
'JOY
GRATITUDE
VISUALISE
ASK
BELIEVE
RECEIVE'
The Secret