Celebrate The Healing Power of ART: 12/01/2011

Welcome! The purpose of "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART", founded by Renee Phillips, Director of Manhattan Arts International, is to Promote ART and all aspects of CREATIVITY and its vital importance to healing individuals and the planet. We believe that when Artists create healing Art they not only experience a healing process within themselves, their Art also has a healing impact on viewers.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Our Healing Power of Art Exhibition

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Shown here is a painting by Martha Brouwer, one of the winners in the 6th "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART" exhibition.

We are pleased to announce our 7th "Celebrate The Healing Power of Art", an online group exhibition, April 10, 2012 - June 10, 2012.

The purpose of Celebrate The Healing Power of ART is to promote ART and all aspects of CREATIVITY and its vital importance to healing individuals and the planet.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

* The Healing Power of ART is undeniable.

* Art is a natural force that promotes heath and well-being for the creator as well as the viewer.

* When Artists create healing art they not only experience a healing process for themselves, their art has a healing impact on viewers, and the earth.

* Art has transformative powers to change a person’s outlook and the way they experience the world.

* Art can affect a person’s physiology impacting brain wave patterns and the nervous system.

* Art can alter the cells in the body and it has the power to promote healing.

* Art can strengthen a person’s immune system.

* Now, more than ever, we need to "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART".

For this year’s competition we are especially seeking a wide variety of Art in all styles and media that are uplifting, powerful and transformative. Expressions may be literal or abstract -- those of hope, liberation, unity, love, faith, transformation, recovery, joy, revelation, faith, abundance, empathy, soul, spirit, etc.

We invite you to share this journey with us.
Learn more http://www.manhattanarts.com/Gallery/Healing-Power-of-ART/index.htm

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Positive Quotes to Inspire The Artist Within

Just because... sometimes we just need a little boost, an inspiring quote, a reminder of what we already know to be true about our inner strengths, about art, artists and creativity.

So here are some of my favorites... from my book Success Now! For Artists. I hope you enjoy them.

"Embrace those big dreams that seem elusive and integrate them into your daily habits to make them tangible. What action could you take right Now! that would set your dream in motion? Create your master plan and plan your destiny!" ~ Renee Phillips

"Great minds have purposes; others simply have wishes."
~ Washington Irving

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
~ Marcel Proust

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

"Success should not be measured by external events – when you sell your first work, or have your first one-person show, or get a positive review by a critic, or when your work is collected by a museum. It should be a constant flame that glows steadily and triumphantly within you – originating from the knowledge that you create your destiny. You don’t need anyone – a dealer, an agent, an art critic or patron – to give you validation or approval. Success is yours NOW!"
~ Renee Phillips

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him… We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
~ John F. Kennedy

My book Success Now! For Artists is one of the several parts in the Artrepreneur Success Package. Learn more.

Words of Inspiration

"Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery."
~ Florence Nightingale

"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
~ Ivor Stravinsky

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
~ Michelangelo

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life."
~ Pablo Picasso

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing." ~ Marc Chagall

"Art is not a thing but a Moving Spirit." ~ George Innes

"'Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea."
~ Ben Nicholson

"Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies."
~ Paul Klee

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." ~ Marc Chagall

"A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis." ~ Hans Hofmann

"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." ~ Grandma Moses

"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see." ~ Paul Klee

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity." ~ Julia Cameron

"Creativity advances through works that bring about the artists' continuing self-creating." ~ Garry Wills

"Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way."
~ Albert Einstein

"Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in bed for both." ~ Eric Maisel

"It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference."
~ Josef Albers

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." ~ Frances Bacon

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." ~ Andre Gide

"An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art."
~ Lee Simonson

Inspiring Quotes by Artists

The Universe, this planet and every plant and animal life force upon it survives on one overriding principle - the 'CREATIVE' principle. Human artistic endeavour is Nature's highest form of this principle. It is always in direct contrast to human sickness and destruction. Our physical,intellectual and spiritual progress is founded on this fact. If we do not create - we suffer and die!
~ Keith Morant

"My Art work is inspired by giving a voice to children who have been abused that do not have a voice. The art I do addresses the silence around sexual abuse that allows the perpetrator to continue. I also believe that the artist and the viewer enter into a mutual healing process as the art is made and looked at. Art is able to contravene our belief system and hit us in our emotions with a visceral reaction. This reaction can then affect the individuals thoughts and awareness which can then change societal norms. Silence is not golden."
~ Linda Litteral

"My creativity centres mostly around seeing/feeling/exploring the tension, the power and the passion in and between firmness and dissolution, structure and creative chaos, between immobility and movement, lightness and weight. To feel the challenge in the visualization, the watching and a wish to see behind, beyond the artistic expression. I think it is about challenging your visualization, re-evaluing, overthrowing, setting the room into rotation and seeing if something new appears and allowing the artistic expression to work outside its known context."
~ Gunilla Lofgren

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Our Healing Power of Art Exhibition

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Positive Quotes to Inspire The Artist Within