Dr. Linda Berman

Now on waysofthinking.co.uk The Tremendous Psychological Cost Of Being A 'Hard Person'. By Dr Linda Berman 🎨Soft Hard. Wassily Kandinsky. 1927. Wikimedia Commons #hardperson

Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time. Thomas Mann #music #time

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann #time

One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble; only in moments of unusual clarity and vision do we really know about ourselves. Thomas Mann #selfknowledge

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. Thomas Mann #art #life

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. Thomas Mann #books

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Thomas Mann #tolerance

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann #solitude

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors. Jacques Lacan #mirrors #reflections

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation. Alice Miller #past #sufferings #acknowledgement

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact. Fyodor Dostoyevsky #originality

Colour transmits and translates emotion. Wassily Kandinsky #colour #emotion

I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures! Mark Rothko #thinking #art

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. Mark Rothko #art #adventure

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. Willem de Kooning #painting #destruction #new

Art is coming face to face with yourself. Jackson Pollock #art #self

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. Jackson Pollock #painting #selfdiscovery

The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success. Helen Frankenthaler #loneliness

There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents- & forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it & do something with it. Helen Frankenthaler #accidents

I follow the rules until I go against them all. Helen Frankenthaler #rules

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. Helen Frankenthaler #rules #invention