18 July, 2013
616_Nelson Mandela
Today's topic is Nelson Mandela.
Today is Mandela Day. More HERE and HERE.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
~ Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
~ Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~ Nelson Mandela
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
~ Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
~ Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
~ Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
~ Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
~ Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until its done.
~ Nelson Mandela
Happy Drawing! :)
17 July, 2013
Patrick Jane
This charming fictional character has a way of getting justice done
using observation and deduction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mentalist
615_Justice
Today's topic is Justice.
Today is International Justice Day. More HERE.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
~ Malcolm X
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
~ Bill Cosby
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
~ George Washington
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~ Helen Keller
Happy Drawing! :)
16 July, 2013
614_Rembrandt
Today's topic is Rembrandt.
15th July was Rembrandt's birthday.
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
~ Quentin Blake
Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. Rembrandt is truly called a magician... that's not an easy calling.
~ Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh
He can blend, like no one else, reality with mystery, the bestial with the divine, the most subtle and powerful craftsmanship with the greatest, the loneliest depths of feeling that painting has ever expressed.
~ Paul Valéry,
Happy Drawing! :)
15 July, 2013
613_Shield
Today's topic is Shield.
Your spirit is the true shield.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
~ Jessica Savitch
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
~ Laurel Lea
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
~ Brian May
Happy Drawing! :)
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