People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
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Related FAITH is the foundation you build your house upon. You put up studs of HOPE and walls of DREAMS. Ins... ORLAND FARINAS The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the tr... SHANNON L. ALDER Paint yourself with the colors of your love. Hang your paintings on the walls of your desires. DEBASISH MRIDHA Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tran... SOURCE UNKNOWN Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should... JEANETTE WINTERSON Clearly, homeowners are taking steps to increase the value of their most important investment, their... ANGIE HICKS The writer is an explorer who travels into the depths of their own special world bringing back news ... RAHMA KRAMBO Collectors say, 'I hate reproductions. It's awful. Why would anybody do that?,' ... That's what they... CHRISTOPHER MOORE You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to p... LAUREN OLIVER When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We... HANS HAACKE Gifts make their way through stone walls. PROVERB You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an enviro... WILLIE BROWN Parents are looking to make their homes the safe refuge. ... While the world doesn't necessarily spi... LEAH KLUNGNESS People put their faith in man, because they are too scared to put their faith in GOD. AARON CONN That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own... ERIN GRUWELL A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tec... KEVIN MITNICK What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass ... LIERRE KEITH ITAC was driven by [financial services] CEOs who recognized that identity theft was a huge problem f... ANNE WALLACE I saw people captured and put in detention centers (on my trip). The truth is, they have no options.... MIKE ROGERS Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose th... ANTHONY ROBBINS A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. .... BILLY BRAGG The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Honor those who inspire you, who show you the way. The teachers, artists , writers, the healers. Res... EILEEN ANGLIN Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things ... BOB RICHARDS Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will
really accomplish great things ... BOB RICHARDS I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ... ELLEN DEGENERES Broken hearts behave in a million different ways- some of them are most unpredictable. More often th... LATIKA TEOTIA Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be... LOUIS MACNEICE Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be... LOUIS MACNEICE Appreciation, gratitude, affection-these are the qualities Parisians bestow on their parks. Beauty, ... LANDT DENNIS A lot of people in Richmond who come from a variety of backgrounds and faith communities are working... JEFFREY CLARK You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. Ther... MELINA MARCHETTA Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually eve... MICHAEL MOORE I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to car... MARK HADDON People pick up on the vibrancy of your downtown area. Communities that take pride in their downtowns... JEFF MCKAY Children intrinsically understand that a home is not just the bricks and mortar that physically safe... CHARLIE YOUNG People will not put their faith, their trust or their cash into electronic commerce if they feel tha... AL GORE There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their w... DARNELL LAMONT WALKER I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beauti... ELLEN DEGENERES In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm... OSCAR GOODMAN A lot of the (participants) are creative people, so this is a good way for them to have an outlet fo... JEAN PRICE every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio... ELIZABETH GILBERT “Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. ... CARLOS CASTANEDA There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect wa... P.S. BABER Home prices in Colorado are still expensive. You have a lot of people getting back on their feet and... ALAN BUSH We think it would as big benefit to people who lost their whole home or part of their home. For peop... ALEXIS WILLIAMS Clearly you shouldn't do things that are going to endanger people who are putting their lives on the... ALAN RUSBRIDGER If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of ... BOB BARTLETT I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book ... EZRA TAFT BENSON The Jedi is a practitioner of mind mastery. He realizes that whatever they are experiencing, they ar... STEPHEN RICHARDS We became very attached to the family. Their children are cute. They were such nice people. They are... BARB SCHREIER In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, the... ALAN LIGHTMAN Stand like a restful mountain in front of people so that they can realise the foolish complexities a... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I hope that you see right through my walls I hope that you catch me 'cause I'm already falling<... CHRISTINA PERRI There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In... ANTHON ST. MAARTEN Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are t... MYLES MUNROE I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th... KAKI KING Most of these people come to the hospital after they hear the bombardment or news on the radio. They... DR. RAED ARINI People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. RALPH ALLEN There's only a handful of chicks in the world who can climb big walls on my level. ALEX HONNOLD Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses,... ELLEN DEGENERES I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them. DEYTH BANGER To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you... "Dexter: You seem uncertain. I... DEYTH BANGER People put dollar values - and therefore market values - on their pets all the time. ... sometimes i... GERALD JESERICH A lot of people hung them on the walls and on their windows. In the winter it kept out the cold and ... JEAN TYSON You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on thei... TONY VISCONTI If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own commun... ALEX STEFFEN Have courage to follow your own intuition & conviction. On the other hand, some people who are on th... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, wi... SHANNON L. ALDER The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to chu... C. JOYBELL C. Let's remind people it's a school area. Slow down. That way, it's on their mind when they put their ... ERNESTINE WISE Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark roo... J. SHERIDAN LE FANU Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial... MAYA ANGELOU We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I ... EDIE FALCO [During his formative years in Charlottesville, Jason?s family participated in family traditions tha... JASON WRIGHT Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON What do you hang on the walls of your mind? EVE ARNOLD Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people l... SIMON RATTLE Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think ... OSCAR PISTORIUS When you come up to an election year people start holding on to their money because they can't count... LENNY SIMMS But when you get to earth-friendly stationery and home decor, you have to do a lot of extrapolating.... DIDI CHADRAN The guys that are on this team have put a lot of time and money into this sport, and they didn't wan... GARY WAGHER My experience with smart lay people who are involved in things like this is that they usually have s... JAMES HEBERT The voters of Arizona will discover that my core values - limited government, economic freedom, secu... LEN MUNSIL My colleagues don't usually follow the news, but their eyes were glued to the screen of the televisi... LYNN LIN I know how the outside world is they need to put titles on their resumes. But my hope is that the... DIANE HALL The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the ... ALDOUS HUXLEY Their is some peace in this world because there are some people who tolerates others. C. LIDE SANGTAM Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot b... ISABELLA BIRD You can always give your testimony of how you came to know Jesus. Certainly no one can argue with yo... HENRY HON Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly countr... MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just th... SIMON HOGGART “Often people trade on the CURRENCY of their beauty because they have never developed the quality ... JAI STONE These seven paintings are unique. They represent the result of the combined efforts of many club mem... ED LAUDANO When a writer falls in love with you - their very soul bursts open like a supernova brightly lightin... TARANJEET SINGH This isn't about putting a couple of people in mascot suits or showing icons on the walls. It's abou... JEANNE SMITH People are saying to me that what they don't want to do is put people who cannot afford this into a ... DIGBY JONES But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - b... LOUIS THEROUX
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