“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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 […]
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The Great Devotion
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Gary Bolyer’s 5 Most Inspirational Art Blogs of All Time
Do you want to know the most inspirational art blogs? Okay, so you want to be inspired? You want to feel something don’t you? You want to feel it in your bones? Then you must read these 5 inspirational art blogs that I have written. If you don’t know what I’ve been writing about lately, […]
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Do You Have a Bucket List?
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~Pablo Picasso As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ~Zachary Scott To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ~William James A few years back, Jack […]
A Prayer for Andy Warhol
“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.” – Andy Warhol Not long ago I was in Manhattan around Union Square. I actually go there pretty often. It’s one of my favorite places in the city. There’s a Barnes & Noble […]
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Don’t Be Fickle. Don’t Change Directions
America is facing some of its greatest challenges ever. The America that we have today is much different from the America that I knew as a boy. I think that one of the biggest problems facing Americans today is that we’ve become a very fickle people. If the wind blows this way, we go this way. If the wind blows […]
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Beauty only comes by grace…
Someone once told me that beauty only comes by grace. So it came to be that I stood with my sister in the presence of grace in the form of beauty, in the form of art, in the form of paintings that hung in long hallways that echoed as we spoke. They were seascape paintings, images of […]
The best advice I ever got…
The best advice I ever got on how to live a life came from one of my English professors when I was a student at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. I don’t remember the professor’s name. I don’t remember what he looked like. I do remember that he was a seasoned man, a gifted […]
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