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As I reflect on my past experiences, I am accutely aware of how often I have spoken from opinion rather than from experience. I have made mistakes. This makes me think of the Mark Twain quote -"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." Let's go out and get some experience, shall we?

an old work I've always left on my desktop screen for a reminder

A stylized and comically extra long, fast food fry container with the text 'Only Fries Kind of Day'.

I collected quotes for the role models from a bunch of people, and compiled them into this...

Drawn in pen and ink, colored pencil, digitally altered to illustrate the Thai quote: Even a Rabbit Dreams of the Moon.

"The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it" -Laurence J. Peter

“All good things are wild and free.” ― Henry David Thoreau.

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." ~ Duke Ellington

"Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise." ~ Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle To Temple, line 69. I really had to ponder this quote and figure out how to illustrate it. A spider came to mind...so tiny and fragile in comparison yet invokes so much fear. Then considered a daddy long leg.

Digital Typography inspired Doodle Quote using paper by 53 app on IPhone.

Here's my Coffee & Quotes Challenge... with the sleeve removed ;) I thought it would be fun to continue the doodle underneath the sleeve! To see submitted version, check out my 'Drawing Challenges'... this contest has been awesome, it combined 2 of my faves: DOODLES & COFFEE!

quotes. and hand lettering

One of my favourite quotes from Nat King Cole, Nature Boy...

“But life is just a party And parties weren't meant to last…” - from ‘1999’ by Prince.

“We surrender. I think a lot of the art experience is about surrendering.” - Brian Eno.

“You must plan to be spontaneous.” - David Hockney (1937 - 2026). Thank you for everything you legend!

“Just as the permanent foundation of the ground provides the springboard for voyages into outer space, so it is with the more mysterious flights of imagination.” — Roland Penrose.

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
- Joan Miro.

“We’re living in a re-issue world, filching from the past like magpies with a Tardis.” - Mark E. Smith.

“If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there.” - Sterling Holloway.

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee.

“I don’t know much, but I know a little about a lot of things.” - Oliver Hardy.

“I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything." - Captain Beefheart.

“Edinburgh is home. It’s like everything in the world that should be is in Edinburgh and its surroundings.” - Bert Jansch.

"If there are things that haven’t aged well, I’d be grateful if you laugh them off with a forgiving heart.” - Hirokazu Hikawa.

“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.” - David Bowie.

“New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.” - David Lynch.

“You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.” - Tove Jansson, Comet In Moominland.

“I remain old, but younger than I’ll be tomorrow.” - Richard Kind.

This quote from Voltaire rings true, no doubt about that! “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.