Nita Engle quotes

“I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.”
-- Nita Engle

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“Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.”
-- Nita Engle

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“Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.”
-- Nita Engle

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“Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.”
-- Nita Engle

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“Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."”

“The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.”

“When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.”

“I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.”

“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”

Source : "The Silent Wife".

“I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.”

Source : Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. March 26, 2008.

“Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each loss you’ve experienced. But it also represents the tears we’ve both shed as we’ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears I’ve shed over the fact I’ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you I’m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush”

“A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.”

“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

“Chop your own path. Get off the car track”