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“Without myth, every culture loses its healthy #creative natural power."”
― Friedrich Nietzsche: philosopher

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
― Joseph Campbell: author, teacher

Embrace your #myth.

Art has no "best by" date. It is a little package of immortality, a slice of timelessness.
Art's often a message of the "here and now" that will serve as a gift for those to come.
Art can portray who we are and who we really wish to be.
Art's magic in its distillate form.
― #MAFO

“The #fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. The big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.”
― Julio Cortázar: author

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human #happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does #art color life.”
— Sir John Lubbock: banker, politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath

Mark Rothko stated, “While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of #art should be and how it should be done. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world.”

"The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere."
Terence McKenna: ethnobotanist, mystic

"I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize."
Little Richard: musician, singer, songwriter

If only we could be kinder creatures.
Celebrating #creativity.
Reveling in the joy of life.
Enjoying every drawn breath.
Maintaining a sense of innocence.
Focusing on making our lives better, where no one goes hungry or suffers from cold or heat.
Ah, wishes.
― #MAFO : mixed media

“So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

#MAFO art

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
― Francis Bacon

"So, you are an artist, MAFO. Do you paint?"
"Yes"
"Sculpt?"
"Yes"
"What else?"
"Oh, I'm a ceramicist, printmaker, metalsmith (gold and silver), lapidary, scrimshander, glassblower, and more."
"You would've made da Vinci jealous."
"Perhaps so but we'd have gotten along famously."