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  by Rhana Griffin

  I read a quote in the paper today and wanted to remember it to mention to a friend who has been going through a difficult ordeal recently…

  I read a quote in the paper today and wanted to remember it to mention to a friend who has been going through a difficult ordeal recently. By the time I got home I couldn’t remember it word for word so had to google it. I’m so glad I forgot the words! Because I discovered so many more… I thought they were worth sharing. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung

• B&W Photography Quote
  by Bruce Halliburton

  I Just found this quote on the web, which I thought I would share! If you’re photographing in color you show the color of their clothe…

  I Just found this quote on the web, which I thought I would share! If you’re photographing in color you show the color of their clothes – if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul. (Unknown) - So true!

• For Sale: 2008 B&W Calender
  by jegustavsen

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• Yeah 2 Sales!! Can you feel that!!!! (pumping fists in air)
  by Alan Reading

  So there you go! Yep 2 cards sold today. 2! count ‘em 1 2. / 2 of my awesome / iNinja? cards: ”!http://www.redbubble.com/rbimages/card_pro…

  So there you go! Yep 2 cards sold today. 2! count ‘em 1 2. / 2 of my awesome / iNinja? cards: . So what do you say now Miss Melinda Kerr / IF that is your real name? Not so crazy an idea now is it? huh? Yeah! Take that! and that! I will add that Melinda Kerr really is a beautiful person and a knockout chick ;). She just doesn’t yet believe in my ability to rock this planet. / I’m not just any forklift driver from Kuraby, I’m an awesome forklift driver from Kuraby. I suspect it was one of my minions who bought the cards. / I just want to say to that minion that you do not have to buy my love minion. / You can do me favours for it. I also accept barter card.

• YOU KNOW YOUR A PARENT WHEN........
  by trickyruby

  ...you find a piece of jigsaw at the bottom of your handbag. ...you spend your evening unravelling a slinky. ...leaving the house i…

  ...you find a piece of jigsaw at the bottom of your handbag. ...you spend your evening unravelling a slinky. ...leaving the house is like completing a military checklist. ...you find yourself shouting “Ooh look! A horse/cow/whatever” and realise the children are not actually in the car. ...you realise that ANYTHING can be cleaned with a babywipe. ...all your books and ornaments are 6 feet off the ground. ...you know where the Sellotape and pencils are but not a pen. ...every single light in the house has been turned on….. even when the sun is shining. ....you can recite all the words to The Gruffalo without looking at the book! ....you find a lego block in your bed. ....the phone rings and it’s never for you. ....you find yourself saying all the stuff your Mum used to say to you when you were a kid. ....you hear yourself saying “well I’m not EVERYONE else’s mother!” ....you have a piece of Sellotape holding your Sky card in. ...that warm body and wriggling behind you in bed is not your partner feeling amorous! ....you feel lost when you manage to go out on your own and you have to carry your bags rather than hang them on back of the pram! ...you put chocolate in the freezer so it’s too hard for kids to eat!

• These Cards Have Been Given a New Home
  by Stephen Mitchell

  As previously mentioned, I purchased fifteen of my own photographs ...

  As previously mentioned, I purchased fifteen of my own photographs as cards. I’d ONLY planned to give a few away as gifts to close friends, and in particular to the one person who convinced me that my photography was worth selling. She knows who she is. So this morning I brought fifteen cards into work purely to allow these friends to choose the picture they liked most … and allow them to have it for FREE. These are the photographs they choose. / / ... for Yve / ... for Rosie / ... for Jenny / ... for Liam / / Little did I realise what would happen next… / / First, Jenny liked them so much she insisted (read: I caved) on having four more. Who am I to argue with a woman? So I decided on a price, she agreed … and I earned another ten dollars. Yes, I reduced the cost to $2.50. But that’s what you do for friends, and free publicity. / / , , So I stopped for a minute to consider my options. Why not sell them? OK, so I had instructions from “SWMBO” to keep some for Xmas and Birthday cards later this year. I was implicitly told that two would go family interstate within the next week! / / So after a quick email, these two photographs were purchased by Yve: / / , Then Wendy said she might miss out – so she bought three (and asked for three that had already been purchased)! / / , , Whew! I feel exhausted and exhilarated all at once! And I need to remember to exhale. Because selling one’s artwork is like giving one’s children away. The photography and post-production is nothing compared with suddenly becoming a ‘recognised photographer’. One person did say I could make more money if I did all this myself. Possibly. But all I want to do is photograph. RedBubble remove the hassle by doing all the framing, laminated, sending, and finances for me! / / One more thing: Wendy also gave me the boost and the BEST Quote of the day : ” I’d rather spend my money on your work, not on Hallmark! “ / Wow, I’ve been compared with Hallmark – and won! She also indicated she will purchase more of my cards online. Only one of the didn’t sell. I get to keep this one for my desk: ‘A picture tells a thousand words’. I love this quote. No longer do I need to write to family and friends – I only have to take one photograph to write a thousand words!

• We ALL need inspiration....
  by Mariam Muradian

  We ALL need inspiration, help, support, a fortune cookie, reinvention, motivation, a hand, an AHAAA moment from time to time….. / These …

  We ALL need inspiration, help, support, a fortune cookie, reinvention, motivation, a hand, an AHAAA moment from time to time….. / These are just a few quotes that carry me through my journey. Perhaps they will inspire you as well. I hope so. / I will continue to add to this list. / I would love to hear some of YOUR favorite quotes! Please share. / Venice, San Lazzaro, / Mekhitarist Library, MS 1635, / Gospel, Skevra, 1193, / artist Konstantine, Baptism. / Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. / Photo: Dickran Kouymjian ........................................................................................................................................................ “Courage is the first among human qualities because it guarantees the others”.Aristotle ..... “The faithful are mirrors to one another.” Rumi ..... “Choice is will.” ~ C.C. Arshagra / ..... “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.” / ~ Theodore Roosevelt ..... “When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” / ~ Kahlil Gibran ..... “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” / ~ Mark Twain ..... “Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”~ St. Francis of Assisi ..... “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” / ~ Helen Keller ..... “Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.” / ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ..... “Never, never, never give up.”~ Winston Churchill ..... “Failure is an event not a person.” ~ Tom Thresher, Minister, / Suquamish Church ..... “Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”~ Chinese Proverb ..... “Don’t meet trouble half-way.”~ Hindu Proverb ..... “The best remedy for those who are afraid, ill, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.”~ Anne Frank ..... “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” / ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ..... “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”~ Henry David Thoreau ..... “Your greatest teachers in life will be patience and humility.” / ~ David “Doc” Cote, editor to the first published books of / C.C. Arshagra ..... “It is what is unseen that holds our lives together.”~ Unknown ..... “Do one thing everyday that scares you.”~ Anonymous ..... “As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” / ~ Nelson Mandela ..... “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…” / ~ The Bible KJV, Hebrews 11:1 ..... “Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, / made nothing? / Are you willing to be made nothing? / dipped into oblivion? / If not, you will never really change.” / ~D.H. Lawrence ..... “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” ~ Unknown ..... “Life is a grand adventure or it is nothing.” ~ Helen Keller ..... “Time passes, essence remains. The body wearies, the love sustains” ~ Crowmanic ..... “What does not destroy me makes me strong.” / – Friedrich Nietzsche ..... “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” / – e. e. cummings ..... “Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.” / – Louisa May Alcott .....

• QUOTED CARDS : SHARE THE GOODNESS
  by webgrrl

  SAY MORE THAN JUST HELLO.. / Share or Inspire with Quoted Cards. Spread the goodness.. !http://www.redbubble.com/rbimages/card_prod…

  SAY MORE THAN JUST HELLO.. / Share or Inspire with Quoted Cards. Spread the goodness.. promo idea : make nice presentation similar to this and make cards from it to send/promote your new product! No better example than the one they holding in their hands.. ;) i’ve activate the card to sell in RB, so that you’all can see what it looks like as cards (and i like to see it too!).. So yah, incase u wonderin why im sellin cards of my promo material.. heh!

• My favourite quote : - By Frank Barron
  by sweetscent62

  “The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought….

  “The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought…” / “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, and constructive ,crazier and saner, than the average person.” / —Frank Barron,

• (1) Having A Way With Words
  by jianina

  The key to having a way with words>> “When the thoughts come together, there are usually no other words to use but the right ones” ...

  The key to having a way with words>> “When the thoughts come together, there are usually no other words to use but the right ones” First quote by Jianina-

• First sale
  by bettyboop

  Yeahhhh, i just made my first ever sale on redbubble. Thank you to whoever bought my work. Im so excited. I hope i will sell some more.

  Yeahhhh, i just made my first ever sale on redbubble. Thank you to whoever bought my work. Im so excited. I hope i will sell some more.

• One of my favourite quotes
  by sweetscent62

  “There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness” – T…

  “There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness” – The Dalai Lama

• Two quotes.
  by Gregoryno6

  I’m cleaning up the study – hey, I cleaned up just six months ago, where did all this crap come from? – and I found a bundle of cards and…

  I’m cleaning up the study – hey, I cleaned up just six months ago, where did all this crap come from? – and I found a bundle of cards and signs that I had stuck up on the wall here. I have a long history of sticking things on walls, and that’s probably worth a journal post in itself. Not to mention a lengthy psychological treatise. But I digress. I like to collect quotes, the words and comments that slip out in our occasional moments of insight, and these two stick right out. Mainly because they’re on cards too big to fit in the envelope. “There are three rules that must be followed if one is to write a successful novel. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are” – W Somerset Maugham. “Being captured by the adequate, being captured by the obvious, both prevent the best of information” – Edward De Bono.

• Simple Yet Profound
  by Stephen Mitchell

  *Art gives us relief from the mundane and limited aspects of human existence. Great art is simple in its elements and profound in its exp…

  Art gives us relief from the mundane and limited aspects of human existence. Great art is simple in its elements and profound in its expression. / Read Buddy Sear’s full article here

• Two days into Redbubble.....
  by Carisma

  I have no words to describe the way I feel….it has been an amazing and exciting/gratifying two days!!! To date (is midnight here in…

  I have no words to describe the way I feel….it has been an amazing and exciting/gratifying two days!!! To date (is midnight here in South Africa) I have uploaded on the site 15 pictures, received 37 gratifying comments about them, had my pictures marked as 6 favorities by some members, some have even added me to their Watch List…...I am still under shock! So many extremely talented artists here had encouraging words about my work – when I look at the outstanding quality of THEIR work I still marvel that they have noticed mine !! To all of you: THANK YOU AGAIN

• First Sales!
  by jegustavsen

  I would like to thank Pagly2 for your interest in the B&W (quote) calender and your patience in working out details in purchasing one. / ...

  I would like to thank Pagly2 for your interest in the B&W (quote) calender and your patience in working out details in purchasing one. I would also like to thank whoever purchased the “pizza” card! It was such a nice surprise to get home from work and see the messages/activity; something I did not expect. Thank you again! Jeanne

• Inspirations from Words
  by adgray

  I have been Bubbling with a fellow artist Mariam Muradian and she recently posted a journal co…

  I have been Bubbling with a fellow artist Mariam Muradian and she recently posted a journal collecting inspirational quotes. / This was my rather greedy [in size] post and I would love to share them with you too and please feel free to add your own too! / The more the merrier! :o) [I love each and every one of these:] “It takes one to know one!” – local school yard! :o) “This too shall Pass” – E Roosevelt “Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground!” “Laughing is good exercise. It’s like jogging on the inside.” “Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life.” “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!” ’It’s frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions!” “If you want to know what god thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to” – New England saying “Those who give have all things. Those who withhold have nothing.” – Hindu proverb “Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet is the humblest imaginable” – Mohandas K Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader (1869 – 1948) “I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow than a sleepy permanent planet” – Jack London (1876 – 1916) “Be nice to those you meet on the way up the ladder of success, for they’ll be there to help you on your way back down!” June Bronhill [Australian Opera Diva] [Especially :] “A little of what you fancy does you no harm” – Isobell Maud Ey [my Irish maternal great grandmother] / [ not that this is inspirational but – “Be’are ye sins’ll find ye out!” – another of Isobell’s fave sayings lol – she lived to 102 by the way :o) ] / “it’s all very well having these new fandangled machines, but who’s the idiot pushing the button!” – Dora Smart [my maternal grandmother] “You know something Mummy? Life is like a slide – you climb up the ladder and that’s hard work, you can go “TA-DA!” At the top and then you get the fun of going fast back down! Then you get to do it all over again! And the higher the slide the harder you climb but the longer you get to have fun!” Thomace Muldoon aged 3 [my son] “Life isn’t meant to be easy – get used to it!” [Thomace again aged 13 :o) ] “Freedom is having nothing left to do that needs to get done now!” [- Me I think lol] “Today is the tomorrow you waited for yesterday – do it now!” [to defeat procrastination] “Being an adult is not an age or a piece of paper, it is when you realise you have the courage to get up and do what you see has to be done first, even if you don’t want to do it.” _ [- me ] “Smile and the world smiles with you cry and you cry alone, / But if you laugh then it is infectious, Imagine the growth of such an illness sown!” [the addition is from me for my RB profile lol] [ Oh and for those struggling with injustices of any kind be that financial, persecution, abuse or just plain suffering the “fed-ups!” ... ] NIL DESPIRADUM ILLIGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM! / “Don’t let the bastards grind you down!” KEEP HAPPY!!!! ~ adg :o) PS / Please go see the other quotes that were posted here on Miriam’s journal entry thank you – Chookas!! :o)

• Unexpected Moment
  by Maria Dryfhout

  “What I like most about photography is the moment that you can’t anticipate; / you have to me constantly watching for it, ready to welcome…

  “What I like most about photography is the moment that you can’t anticipate; / you have to me constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected”. / author unknown

• Friendship Prayer !!!
  by Heabar

  Our Lives are filled / With simple joys / And Blessings without end / And one of the greatest / Joys in life / Is to be or have a friend / Go…

  Our Lives are filled / With simple joys / And Blessings without end / And one of the greatest / Joys in life / Is to be or have a friend / God Bless us all !!! / Alsh Grant.

• Favorite Sayings #1:
  by Mom2Two

  Never argue with an idiot – people watching may not be able to tell the difference. This continues to be my mantra in dealing with m…

  Never argue with an idiot – people watching may not be able to tell the difference. This continues to be my mantra in dealing with my ex-husband :-) LOL

• Learning Blender...
  by Leoni Venter

  3D modelling is not something I’m comfortable with. But I’ve decided to learn to do it anyway. Since I can’t afford 3D Studio Max (which …

  3D modelling is not something I’m comfortable with. But I’ve decided to learn to do it anyway. Since I can’t afford 3D Studio Max (which costs about a year’s salary back when I had one!) I’m using the free program Blender ... and it’s not easy. This puts me in mind of a quote I came across years ago and wrote down in my diary, knowing it would be useful one day. Today is the day. “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.” – Kurt Vonnegut Ok, back to faces, edges and vertices, and all the related confusing things ;)

• Sale: Thank you!
  by jegustavsen

  Thank you Dukepro for purchasing “ok” card! So much appreciated. !http://images-2.redbubble.com/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main…

  Thank you Dukepro for purchasing “ok” card! So much appreciated.

• "redbubble" - More Hours in the Day PLEASE !!!!!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  RB, you guys have a lot to answer for, all these people with eyes glued to computer screens, fingers that are worn down to the first knuc…

  RB, you guys have a lot to answer for, all these people with eyes glued to computer screens, fingers that are worn down to the first knuckles and silly grins on their faces (heaps of happy, overjoyed,enthusiastic and encouraged people) !!!!! The only problem now is with all this creativity, someone had better come up with a lot more hours in the day !!! My sincerest thanks, once again, to ALL that have viewed my work, given lots of encouragement with the comments and bought my work !! RB is absolutely wonderful, I’ve said it before, but I reinforce the statement that “it has given me a new lease of life”and it is just so great to interact with so many people(all who are Maestros) from as close as my own home town to the far reaches of this big wide wonderful world full of unique artists. Keep it up, and RB I assume today will have 25 hours…... Sincerely Phil T.

• Bought Work
  by jegustavsen

  I have been reviewing my “favorites” and adding new favorites to make a purchase. It has been difficult b/c my favorites are just that-I…

  I have been reviewing my “favorites” and adding new favorites to make a purchase. It has been difficult b/c my favorites are just that-I would like to purchase all of them. The other day while talking to my oldest daughter who is juggling work, being a mother of a soon to be 4 year old, a relationship, moving. I remembered a photo by Craig Goldsmith titled “A Stolen Moment” I had favorited and so I decided to purchase this piece as a card in wishing my daughter a stolen moment/a break from it all….thank you Craig.