Steven Whitney quotes

Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.
-- Steven Whitney

#Fun #Thinking #Profound

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.
-- Steven Whitney

#Different #Faces #Groups

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.
-- Steven Whitney

#Meditation #Engagement #Painting

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Think it over, think it under.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.