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Inspirational Quotes

I enjoy collecting quotes, here are some from my journal…

Cosmos 1988 - Ann-Marie Cheung
Cosmos 1988 – Acrylic on canvas by Ann-Marie Cheung

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
~ Budha

“All power is from within and therefore under our control.”
~
Robert Collier

“Happiness is not an accident, Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.”
~
Jim Rohn

“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.”
~
Jim Rohn

“The day runs away like wild horses over the Hills.”
~
Bukowski

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
~
Buddha

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
~
Confusius

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
~ William Jennings Bryan

“Sadness, illness and despair are less conditions than they are decisions – to see yourself as less than you really are.”
~  the Universe

“If you really want to do something you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
~ Jim Rohn

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”
~ Aristotle

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
~ Bob Marley

“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
~ Yoda

“Knowing is not enough,
We must apply.
Willing is not enough,
We must Do.”
~ Bruce Lee

“We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.”
~ Jim Rohn

“Success is not to be pursued;  it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
~ Jim Rohn

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ”
~ Melody Beattie

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
~ Vince Lombardi

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
~
Ken Robinson

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
~ Ken Robinson

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?
~ Ken Robinson

All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.
~ Ken Robinson

“Maybe [artistry] doesn’t have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you’re finished … it starts to change everything.”
~ Elizabeth Gilbert

“Northland College (NZ) principal John Tapene has offered the following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth.

“Always we hear the cry from teenagers ‘What can we do, where can we go?’
… My answer is, “Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons, and after you’ve finished, read a book.”

“Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun. The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again.”

“In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you…””

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“From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say.”
~ Cai Guo-Qiang

“Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn’t figure out why they had to be in different baskets.”
~ John Baldessari

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

“To solve any problem, there are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, whom could I ask?”
~ Jim Rohn

Painted Floor Cloths

Floor cloths originated in France in the 1400s and were introduced to the American colonies in the early 1700s. Originally made from recycled ships’ sails, they were used to cover dirt or wooden floors in early American homes. Patterns including diamonds, squares and cubes were hand painted or stenciled, frequently by the lady of the house.

These cloths became known as “crumb cloths” when used under tables, but their use was not limited to dining areas. Because of their bright colors and interesting patterns, floor cloths were used as art in parlors, bedrooms and hallways.

Here’s a few Floor cloths that I’ve made…

Lizard Floor Cloth
Lizard Floor Cloth
Family Floor Cloth
Family Sunflower Floor Cloth
Floral Floor Cloth
Floral Floor Cloth

Happy Birthday Mark Rothko!

No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange), 1949 - Mark Rothko

With paintings such as Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red), Mark Rothko arrived at his mature idiom. For the next 20 years he would explore the expressive potential of stacked rectangular fields of luminous colors. Like other New York School artists, Rothko used abstract means to express universal human emotions, earnestly striving to create an art of awe-inspiring intensity for a secular world…

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Some work in progress

I’ve been exploring some Tree of Life concepts using acrylic on canvas… been really loving orange lately

Abstract Art As Therapy

Howard Hodgkin artwork
Howard Hodgkin artwork

Abstract art is not just a mixture of colourful meaningless patterns and arbitrary shapes.

There is, I believe, a definite therapeutic value to be found in most of the enigmatic marks made by the very different styles available today. What appears to be the most important decision to make is a very careful consideration of the specific audience in conjunction with the choosing of the appropriate artwork. This is not something to be taken lightly or quickly. This can cover anybody within the wide spectrum of individual audiences: a busy boardroom environment or a single office or room where quick thinking, fast reactions, and serious decision making is required; or a worker who returns from a hard days work simply wanting to be visually massaged by an easily observed enigma; or even the space in which the desperate and mostly misunderstood person who is gradually loosing their tentative hold on the sense of reality. There is a tremendous variety of possibilities.

Here are some suggested associations from one artists point of view:

Colour plays an obvious healing and therapeutic role to be found in a carefully selected crafted piece, and so colour-field work, which is growing in popularity, first conceived by artists like Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly with their vast areas of empty colour space, might add a general feeling of peace and quiet to an otherwise noisy and hectic environment. With there being very few variations within such a large image a gentle sense of immersion into abstract stillness can slow down any fretful or erratic thinking, and even assist with the adrenal challenge of a creative.

Indefinite shapes or patterns by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Peter Lanyon, and Howard Hodgkin (again, similar works inspired by these very different abstract styles can be seen in many exhibitions, shops and galleries), show a very positive association, and may perhaps persuade a mind filled with illogical thoughts to pause, simply take in the apparent spontaneity, and then take a different direction. Hodgkin style works in particular can be seen as puzzle like canvases in which the observer has no real point of reference so is free to “start” anywhere upon the picture. And because there are very few defined areas sometimes the observer inevitably finds themselves either regarding the piece with little emotion, and therefore can freely make a comment – positive or not.

Let us not deny, however, the fact that many an image that has the potential to provoke a negative response can also be of great value to the observer who might actually benefit from seeing such a challenging picture that bears such a bad association. Better there on the wall than here inside the head. In this case the classic associations of red for blood and danger, black for death and sin, brown for decay and illness, along with dramatic lines and movements found in a painting are equally valuable stimulus if revealed within the appropriate environment. This comes back to my point made at the beginning – when choosing a picture, very careful consideration must be taken in order to find that one work of art which speaks directly to the very deepest parts of the observer.

Interviews & reviews…

Ann-Marie Cheung Vancouver 87
Ann-Marie Cheung Vancouver 87

1997 – March 7th – Globe and Mail – Toronto – “Mixing palettes and palates”

1996 – April – CIUT FM Radio – Toronto – interviewed on the programme – “By All Means”

1991 – April 1st – Wireless Flash – San Diego C.A. – published by Copley Radio Network – “Art or Smut”

1991 – March 14th – The Montreal Gazette – Canadian Press – “Police order shop to remove bondage art”

1991 – March 12th – CFRB Radio 1010 AM – Toronto – interviewed by Wayne Maclean on his phone in talk show

1991 – March 8th – The Toronto Star – “Painter Defends Her Work”

1991 – February 15th – The Toronto Sun – “Bondage Scenes Stir Controversy”

1989 – January – CFUO FM Radio – Ottawa – interviewed on the programme – “Stopframe”

1989 – January 5th – The Ottawa Citizen – “Comic Book Women” – The Gallery of Art show reviewed by Nancy Baele

1988 – February – CFUO FM Radio – Ottawa – interviewed on the programme “Fine Lines”

Ann-Marie Cheung Ottawa 1989
Ann-Marie Cheung Ottawa 1989
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