If You Can

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
but make allowance for their doubting too.

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating
And yet not look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you can dream - but not make dreams your master
If you can think - but not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same.

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone
And so hold on, when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: - Hold on!

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with kings, yet not lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you, but none too much.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything in it
And, what is more, you’ll be a Man, my son.


(Rudyard Kipling)

Gjenklang

"Når jeg anvender symboler og metaforer er det ikke jeg som står i et rom og konstruerer en idé eller et konsept, men gjenstander og motiver som møter meg der ute i livet. En forlatt stol jeg går forbi kan fortelle meg om flyktighet, lengsel - og gi gjenklang til noe som allerede bor i meg. Grunntonen i meg selv lengter etter noe konkret som den kan visualisere seg gjennom. Klokken på en vegg med sine ensomme hjerteslag slår i takt med min egen ensomhet, og vissheten om livets flyktighet får kraft i maleriene mine.

Det er mellomrommet mellom tilblivelse og bortgang som skaper et tidsaspekt. Bevisstheten om bortgang og døden som puster meg i nakken, intensiverer tilstedeværelsen og sanseligheten, samtidig presser den meg til fokusering og konsentrasjon om ideer, betraktninger, opplevelser som jeg higer etter å gi form til. Det bor universer i meg som jeg higer etter å materialisere og etterlate meg før min tid er over."

(Elisabeth Werp)

Et favoritt-sitat fra Auerback

"Gjør det rette og frykt ingen."

(Berthold Auerback)

Efter sin egen Livsplan

"Varje liten blomma är unik,
alla är individer och utvecklas efter sin egen Livsplan."


(Lena Ranehag)

Beautiful people do not just happen

"The most beautiful people we have known
are those who have known defeat,
known suffering,
known struggle,
known loss,
and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation,
a sensitivity and an understanding of life
that fills them
with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.

Beautiful people do not just happen."



(Elizabeth Kubler Ross)

Det vise barnesinn

"Hovedsaken er at man bevarer barnesinnet og allikevel blir vis."


(Warburg)

Subjektiv ærlighet

"Prisen for å følge sin egen linje er høy. Den er en evig usikkerhet. Men det er prisen for den åndelige frihet. Det er en luksus å ta seg denne frihet, men den er min form for kapital. Enhver norsk leser vet at hva jeg skriver - vel, det kan være galt - men det er ikke kjøpt. Det er subjektivt ærlig."


(Jens Bjørneboe)

Tänka rätt

"Tänka fritt är stort,
men tänka rätt är större."

(Thomas Thorild)

En tale om menneskets verdighet

"Jeg har satt deg midt i verden, for at du bedre skal kunne overskue hva verden inneholder. Jeg har verken skapt deg himmelsk eller jordisk, verken dødelig eller udødelig - for at du selv som en god maler eller dyktig skulptør, skal kunne fullbyrde din egen form."


(Pico Della Mirandola)

The Crazy Ones

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently

They're not fond of "rules".

And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

They invent.

They imagine.

They heal.

They explore.

They create.

They inspire.

They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?

Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?

Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius

Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.



Steve Jobs