''A 'good' politician should know that a victory won in politics is the beginning of a
'hard road' ... which means he still
has a lot of work to do.''

''All art can influence people in some way or other to take a look at life outside of
'The Box' but, both for the artist and the viewer it requires courage to listen to your
first impressions.''

 

My story-box sculpture ... 'The Gun That Shot John Doe'.

''All things, including people, as we
know them have natural lifespans
and it's not for another human to
interfere in one's life-journey,
but in every second it has
already happened.''

''How many times have you heard that

history has a way of repeating itself ..

well that may be so but do we learn from it.''

''Bitter conflicts between human beings 

are passed like heritable diseases

from one generation to the next ... 

I should know, I am Irish.''

My sculpture ... 'Peace for all'

AGHALANE,
BELTURBET,   (Border of Northern Ireland),
Co. CAVAN,
IRELAND

3m high, two bronze figures,
1999

''The United Nations may be making efforts to find ways in containing the international trade and manufacture in arms but wars make money and money brings power and power makes politicians and politicians are in the United Nations.''

''Anger shows weakness.''

''You cannot change the mind of fanatics
and fools because reason cannot enter
a closed mind.''

''Right now in this very moment of time you are both living and dying at the same time.''

''The Artist holds the licence to bring to life

the imagination, to enter the world

where dreams come to life

and help make others see outside of the box.''

My story-box ... ''A CHILDS DREAM''

''Evil never goes away ..

it's like a cancer it's always there only sometimes you know.''

''Life comes with no guarantees but don't be afraid to take chances because miracles happen everyday and this could be your day.''

''Every thought you have carries
'it's' opposite with it.''

''A man can travel the world ten times over and never leave his mind,

so it's best to try to move up to first class.''

''You cannot avoid what destiny has planed for you.''

''Only fools will gather around a fire on a sunny day.''

''People in science look to the future,
People in religion look to the past,

People in the arts look everywhere.''




''It's O.K. ... I'm an artist.''

 

''Relationships are made up
of changing emotions like a boat 
at sea letting in water.''

''All artists can excel in their work from their own life experiences.''

''If you do not ask
'THE QUESTION' the answer is not going
to come!.''


'..... but I do see Mr. Darwin up there, I go ask Him ...'



''A non-spoken answer is also an answer,

it can tell the other person many things and

it always gives out the wrong impressions ...

so, do you feel confident.''

''ART is the door into the subconscious mind, once you knock you are there.''

''I am a lot more closer to me than you are.'' 

''Today is a good day,
I think ...
yesterday was a shit day,
I know ...
and tomorrow will be a very good day,
I hope ...
misery is the result of wishful thinking.''

''If you want to stop thinking for yourself get involved in a relationship.''

''Marriage or call it a mirage,
because once the papers are signed
love walks out the door.''

''I came into this world crying and kicking and I will go out just crying and asking what was it all about.''




From my painting ''ANSWER ME''
pencil on board.

 

''What you are is the result of

your mind ... and the dollar.''

''It's easy to live with a radio,

you can turn it off.''

''In judging someone else for any reason
 only shows how critical you are of yourself ...

let live, it's their life journey, you have yours and it cannot be evaded.''

''The only tattoos I have are invisible ... they are called emotional scares.''

''The world is full to the point of overflowing with insincere people recognized by their quick tongue with the promise, the motivational smile and the limp handshake.''

''There is an infinity of questions asked by young people that have an infinity of answers that have yet to be heard.''



''Answer Me''

Acrylic on Board 3feet x 3feet



''If its the case that you are living in hope don't expect too much you could die in hoping for change.''

''The one who gossips to you,

[and be in no doubt about this]

is the one who will gossip about you as soon as your back is turned.''

     

''The very act of making art is a journey into

the subconscious mind where only you can go

on that yellow-brick-road.''

Separation

Acrylic on board 6feet x 4feet

''If you found yourself thinking one day

that you had a toleration for all that breaths and emotional attachment for all that is abstract ...

 then you can put it down to the

'ageing process' ...
 from here in things get extreme.''

''As an Artist I don't get bogged down in what the critics have to say, they have to make a living too.''

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''Most people go through life with their finger on the fast-forward button, others go through life remembering to smell the roses ...

even if they are made of paper.''

''We are prisoners of our own self and that's what will be seen if we live

out of our fears.''

''To give the fool advice, you are wasting your time because then you become the bigger fool, worst still, you know it.''

''Oh, but what does a village do when they ring no bells or no call for prayer ...
what do they do at dawn and dusk ...'' 

''We as human beings are destroying the planet, the day will come when we have gone to far down the road too try to go back.''

''Sometimes it's good to rely on taste to know what you are eating.''

''It is said, 'God is everywhere', in that case He should be easy to find but I am not interested in finding God I am interested in finding myself and that's a lot more complicated.''

''Define art in one word ...

Divine ... it can be around longer than anyone life time.''

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''People who make promises easy are not to be trusted, they see life with only themselves in it with a profit to be made.''

''The only 'unknown time' that people will be on time for is, their death.''

''Why is it that for generation after generation the same mistakes are passed down,

are we that naive that we cannot call a stop,

or is it the fear of change that keeps us

rooted in ignorance.''

''I like to look at Death as a transformation,

now you see me, now you don't.''

''When the Mind is at it's best, and even when it's at it's lowest it is the most powerful tool you will ever have, but know when to trust it.''

''The world can be a very complex place,

it is never black and white,

but what we do have is Freewill

and when put into practice your 'needs' no longer become needs.''

''It's not a spiritual journey I am on but a journey of being human with all it's joys and pains and as the artist that comes out in my work ...

or I'm really confused in this world ... better still, maybe my next work will enlighten me.''

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''Never mind about living to a hundred years try living day to day, it's what you learn on the way that makes it worthwhile.'' 

''If I was to live a hundred years I would still know nothing.''

''Never in time as in the present do we have

so much power to destroy our planet and ourselves, how we use the time and
technology is a matter of concern to us all ..
but as it has been proven before in history
it's only a few who will get rich and satisfy their ego and make the decisions for the rest of us in the name of 'progress'.'' 

''Think of conventions then breakaway from them in doing this is one of the ways in finding your own style as an artist.''

''I stand on my own even within a crowd 

but it's by my own standards that I live by 

and not what others tell me.''

''You have heard this one before ...

once we are born enjoy the time for we begin

the journey to our death ...

but I say, also enjoy the time you have because a life-lived comes around only once.''

''There is no point in worrying in how you will die and when, but give some thought in how

you should be living because your freedom came with a price in history.''





''It can all start in the mind as a thought

that just flashed in and stay there

but in time fades away ... never to return,

but nothing like a good idea comes into

reality without that spark of enthusiasm

and the will to live it through ..

be creative.''

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''It is far easier to find people believing in a supernatural power than it is to find
people who have a mind of their own
to ask questions for themselves.''

The Exhibitionist

Acrylic on board
1.20m x 0.90m

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''You talk about the things you want to do in life only to end up talking about the things you didn't want to do ...

live in the moment and not in your memories.''

''Now is always the right time to speak out against injustice, don't expect others to know your mind and to do it for you.''

''Solitude can be the dreaded enemy of youth but your best friend in maturity.''

Think about this; 

''The now established principals and doctrines were we are living our life by were once simply thoughts and opinions of ordinary people hundreds of years ago if not thousands, that gained a footing and then a popularity and eventually in time

found their way into the universal

consciousness of society and the collective ego ...

but do we today question these principles and especially doctrines or do we stand back and accept these being right as the way we should live our live in today's world ... as human beings have we stopped our own progress in developing a better future for the next generations to come .. it's a matter of giving more than taking more

in the name of future survival of all.''

''We are the authors of our own lives so
challenge everything you hear and always
read between the 'lines'
 take nothing for granted and write in
a 'good life' for yourself into history ... 
somebody will remember you.''

 ''It could be possible that most of today's problems world wide could be resolved if we were to study their outcome effect on the future, but I feel power and greed will always stand in the way.'' 

''The very act of making art is a journey of a

self personal discovery.'' 

Neil Armstrong's foot print on the moon 1969.

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''Look on life like a fast flowing river with  stepping stones to cross, some near

and some far apart.''

''We know more times in war than we know times in peace.''

''I speak for myself as a self taught artist, 
in that I take pride in how far I have come
and have the confidence in myself as to
how far I will go.''

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''When Emotion is in the front seat driving and out of control, Reason is in the back seat praying.'' 

''The values in which we live our lives by are expressed in how we treat our fellow man.''

''Creativity and solitude go hand in hand but not without sacrifices been made.''

''Peace in the mind comes when the
mind stops thinking,
that will be the day ... 
and if you do stop thinking and you don't notice it you can assume you are dead.''

''The man who will go to war may have some kind of dogma or physical courage but he has no moral courage.''

''My art has been my voice otherwise I would not have spoken.''

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''I do not want to wake up one morning and find my humanity has abandoned me for some belief that is not of my own making.''

''As human beings we tend to fear fear, but as human beings it is one of our survival needs to know fear, therefore we should try to use it as such but not so easy to put into practice when you come face to face with fear.''

''It takes a lifetime to become wise and just a moment to become the fool.''

''For every human being who stands up and speaks out for injustice sends a hope for the millions who cannot stand up to speak out for being human in a world that is for all to be treated as equal.''

 ''Don't become poor by living beyond your means on borrowed money, others stand to gain from your actions, be wise in how it goes around but do you think the banks are there for you, they are there to profit from you.'' 

''Good and Bad thoughts will manifest

in form, so be ready, it would be a tragedy
to miss out on anything.''

Just a thought;

''Unlike those people, and I met a few this week, who seem to think there is a god who is only there for them and who also believe without-a-doubt that they and he are in direct contact with each other and that he works on their say or request be it in business or other peoples affairs ....

well, I don't have a god on my side and that's why I live my life day by day ... but if people can change age old habits that are handed down generation to generation and open their minds we might have less killing over a god or gods ... 

oh, but what does a village do where they ring no bells or no call for prayer ... what do they do at dawn and dusk ...'' 

''My heart was taken by you, broken by you and put back together by you and no doubt will be broken again, is this love or karma ...
who cares, both come with life's warning .. 
'this emotion and this belief can kill'.''

''I think there is more evil in the world now than at any time before and when you look back in history evil came with man and is not going to go away, therefore we know more times in war than we know times in Peace.''

''When someone is trying to move the blame over to you just for them to save 'face' it is best for you to close your mind and not to give it any thought for it is the thought in the mind playing over and over

that will bring you down.''

Speaking as the artist;

''I have just spent weeks working on a life size clay figure to walk into 'the pigeonhole' [studio] this morning to find it collapsed on the floor and just when I thought I was getting it all together but I was not angry ... sad yes because it came to mind, isn't life just like this clay figure it can all collapse around you at any time but I will get the chance to play 'God' ... I will be in the business of 'resurrection'. If I give up on making sculpture I give up on life.'' 

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''It's best to be alone than keep

bad company.''

''We have some say in how we live

and others have a say in how they die

but we have no say in what happens after death.''

''An Artist should know no borders and not to fear what others may think of his or her work.'' 

''If you are sitting back and feeling content in your life, don't get too comfortable,

destiny will find you.''

''It takes a strong will just to get through life but keep in mind, there is no such thing as a free ride.''

''When I want to get in touch with myself I
 make my sculpture but then I realize
how little I know of myself and so 
the sculpture can become the

mirror of the self in thought.''

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''The chances are that when you die there is no coming back, [and do you want too],

so live each day as it comes, 

this one might be your very last.''

''Why worry about seeing yourself as not being 'perfect', if you think that's how others see you you get another day to prove them wrong.''

''It is better to try to bring into reality your dreams than to live in your dreams.''

''What ever I do takes time

and yet it is always in the now.''

''If it walks on all fours

and it's back is facing the skies,

it will be eaten.''

''You have already failed in life if you sit back and do nothing in thinking you have
something to lose ...
sooner or later we all die so what have you
got to lose.''

''There is no running away from the fact that in our life time we will have to accept the consequence's for every thought and action we have and do ...

but don't let fear stop you, life is too short to let an emotion get in the way.''

''A man's belief is not for another man to judge for man has the freewill to chose his own god and if a man dies for his beliefs he may be wrong in that choice, but, I feel the real courage is in living in a world where all men are accepted as equal in their beliefs and I speak as a freethinker.''

''If you are walking the thin line always try to keep looking forward, never down and certainly
not over your shoulder,
because it is guaranteed others might
be trying to push you off.''

Speaking as an artist;

''Art is essentially a personal response to the visual world that the artist, and most do I feel try always to look from a deeper involvement as in trying to get into the soul of all things but it ends up as only the essence of things in imitating the exterior surface and then that deepens the mystery even more as to what's real ...

but without Art there would be no joy or torment in being alive for my Art has been my voice,  otherwise I would not have spoken.''

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''You want people to listen to what you have
to say, 
hit them with a sledgehammer and then
you'll notice you have got their strict and undivided attention, maybe even with a smile on their face too.''

''If you are happy in what you are doing you will have an inner peace and if you are not,

you will always be in conflict with yourself.''

''If I was a dog I would be very happy in wagging my tail non-stop in thinking I would have no worries for my future with all the

'yes' people around.''

Just a thought;

''When you stop seeing things in your life as being the way to show you the things in your life then don't start to wobble ...

 now this can happen if you are wearing a yellow, blue, red

zig-zag striped jumpsuit with the words

''SUCH IS LIFE''

 printed in red on the back and doing the world tour of

'the worlds highest bungee jumps wish I was some place else sites'

in a 1950's school bus painted black, my good-self driving and Jack the 'Diablo' reading out loud the map of his mind

with the author and director taking notes for the movie

'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'

and all singing ...

''and if that mocking bird won't sing, Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring''...

now this only happens when you stop seeing things in your life as the way to show you the things in your life

for eyes fail to see it and ears cannot hear it but the Mind

can discriminate itself from the very things that appear to

be outside itself without realising that it created these things and therefore all delusions become a state of the Mind

and firmly fixed and so we are no more than the activities of our Mind and fell into the Cuckoo's Nest ...

 There you are Jack .. thought I might find you here .. 

move over, the cuckoo calls ...''

''The imagination is the Matrix in which all mind-games are played out, it's how far we ourselves want to get involved that brings the reality into play ...

still, all thoughts will come into reality

sooner or later.''

''When I die I hope it will be another adventure I go on but nobody has come back here to tell, so it must be some bloody adventure or maybe they are in some kind of  
h[e]aven and it's possible this must
be hell[uva].''

''Today is the first day of my life and it very well could be the last day of my life ...

it is a 'groundhog' day.'' 

''Today is the first day of my life and it very well could be the last day of my life ... 

but it is a 'groundhog' day.'' 

''It's stupidity at it's best and madness at it's worst

to try to save one lost sheep and leave the whole

flock vulnerable.''

''Somehow I feel as human beings we are breaking all the moral principles as being human beings.''

Just a thought:

If helping others gives a meaning to your life
then you depend on others to be worse off
than yourself so that your life can be meaningful
to you, you then have a purpose to your life as others have a purpose too ... 
the ego being human that can only boost your ego,
but if you are coming from an

'inner purpose' you are then coming from

awareness where the ego cannot survive and this applies to all we do in life.''

Speaking as an artist;
''In the process of creativity be it in mind

or action you will discover yourself

for creativity allows the soul to

connect to your humanness.''

''Pay no attention to the one who wants to control your life, they are the ones who are insecure in their own life.''

''I have being preparing for this day

or any given day and I am still not prepared but life begins at the end of your ...

hell-loooooooooo.''

''Watch out for the fools,
they are everywhere on the road .. 

including yourself.''

''Emotion and Reason, it's a delicate balance if you were to lose either one or both
 there's no telling what's going to happen.''

''Drop your ego and your relationships will become more meaningful and loving.''

''The one who can play the fool in front

of the King is the wise one.''

''Life is what you choose to make it,

but it is also what makes you.''

''To die in knowing yourself is to die in bliss
and to die in ignorance is to die in fear
but there is a greater loss and that is,
what dies inside of you when
you are still alive.''

''Without silence there could be no sound.''

''Anger acting-out is like as if it's on a Ferris Wheel pissing against the wind, it all comes back on you sooner than later.''

Just a thought ..

''A man's belief is not for another man to judge for all men have freewill to choose and besides, some things are worth believing in whether they are true or false, it can be very easy to believe than to have doubt that can turn into pain but it's also a matter of a self-worth and comfort in life for most to have their belief and so in my ability as a human being and as a free-thinker that in accepting others as having a freewill for their belief's is moral sensibility and if those in their belief do like-wise then we can call ourselves brothers.'' 

''It don't matter what yellow-brick-road you 

skip-along through out life so long as it's yours

for every turn brings a new moment

a new opportunity that is precious only to you ...

the child in side you which is always there

knows this better than you which is

not always there.''

''The person who feels they can find the answers outside of themselves is looking

in the wrong place because,

if you go into the depths of your heart, 

listen to your intuition and not

the 'voice' [ego] in your head you can 

and in time find yourself.''

''The one thing about egoists is that they want to take control of the conversation and won't talk about anybody else because nobody else can get to say anything for them to listen to repeat it later word for word .. but it's still gossip.''

Just A Thought;

''I was born and have lived the most of my life on a small island in the West called Ireland and there it rained quite abit that locally we called it 'a soft day' because the rain fell like drizzle. Now I live on a bigger island in the East called Borneo and here we have the monsoon season and when the rain falls I can call it 'a hard day' because it rains heavy .. but there are two things I have learned today from both of these experience's. The first is, I will always be an Island Man and the second one is that every drop of rain that falls and irrelevant of where I am,

is in it's right place.''

''We all need Ego, in a way it helps to motivate us to achieve and survive but 'All Ego' in a man of power or the 'Collective Ego' of a group or country could be the death of us all, it is in this awareness we can be better human beings.'' 

''Human beings have destroyed each other through-out history in war, genocide and religious persecution and killing on personal emotions and are more capable of doing so now and in the future than natural disasters that nature will throw at us.''

''The imagination is the matrix but also the sight into the soul in which all great
things of the spirit are born
that expresses one's own self.''

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''Yesterdays are memories that can live

on forever with us,

but it depends on what we want
to hold on to.'' 

Speaking as the artist;
''When I can bring the subconscious and the visual into a near and equal balance then I am in a suspension of disbelief as to how far my creativity can bring me into the vortex of my own mind.''

''Creativity

  allows

for

      PaRaDoX ... 
is that sculpture looking at me?.''


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''Behind every act of kindness

there is always some kind of motive,

be it spiritual or otherwise.''

''In growing old it is said you become wiser and that maybe true for some but others die before they 'wise up' in how to put it to use.''

''Nothing lasts but death and death endures all ... it is the equalizer to all things living.''

''A time when you can call yourself rich is when you are able to pay off your bills.''

''Mistakes can only be the result of ignorance

but from mistakes we can learn ... but,

 ignorance breeds uncertainty and fear

into people that they can keep repeating

the same mistakes throughout history

and that in itself can show how deep rooted ignorance can get into people ... and,

 as human beings we tend to admire

what we don't understand ...

which can also stem from fear of any kind, 

the way of ignorance.''

''Self expression is the mirror of the
inner spirit and is another name I can call 

'creativity's play in reality'.''

''Memories are kept alive by thought
and thought is kept alive by memories
and you can in time remember everything
but it can be at the 'wrong time' ..
that the more time you give to your memories
 the less time you give to the present.'' 

 'Go live your life you are free to do that' ...
''That's bullshit, you are free only if you believe you are free and feeling free is in the knowing you are not listening to your ego ..
that little voice in your head that cries out for attention ...
you are free you are free ....
No ... I am free when I live in the present time .... Now...
OK, if you think something like this than maybe you have a chance ... as for me I am all over the place that's why I write this stuff.''

''Loss is inevitable ...
everything, as you know it, from keys to aging to money to relationships to inheritance to war to dogma to life ... but a greater personal loss can be going through life in knowing and then eventually admitting to yourself that you have been fucked.''

''Cruelty and fear in the name of a religious belief is motivated by the need for power, which in turn is control which motivates the 
madness in the name of religious and ideological beliefs in mass exterminations and genocide for a god or gods that we may have created in our own minds.''

''Each time that you wake up from sleep or the start of a new day you have the chance to make a new start if you knew what it is that is wrong .. and there is always something wrong as we keep reminding ourselves.''

''To go through life in the fast lane and trying to pay attention to the small details is like passing an elephant through the

eye of a needle.'' 

''The greatest loss of all is not just that of life, but of the 'innocence' of the living ...

that is, in believing what is said by those who ego's do the talking.''

''To love is to recognize yourself in another human being ...
 if you refuse to acknowledge it for
fear of hurt or disappointment
then you as a human being will be empty
and you are at the greater loss.''

Think about this;
     ''Dictator or king, religious or freethinker, rich or poor, adult or child. Every human being that is born into this energy will at some time of their lives experience suffering of some kind, be it mental or physical, self imposed or imposed by others.
     Suffering has a purpose ... human beings would not evolve as human beings in regarding the ego, for the majority of suffering, but not all, is caused by the ego, but here is the paradox ... suffering is brought on by the identification with form, attachment, but suffering can also erode the identification with form, detachment.
     When you accept suffering consciously, awareness, then and only then there can be an acceleration of the process of suffering and therefore the ego will let go and then you can transcend it.
     Suffer consciously and the ego lets go, detachment, suffer unconsciously and the ego creates more suffering, attachment.''

Just a thought;

''Analyzing yourself through the process of thought is a cover-up to who you truly are because thought is limiting yourself to your true potential that is, you are listening to your ego.''

''For me the making of my Art is my true reason for being and been and after that

I am just here for the ride ..

but it is bumpy.''

''Don't you think there should be lots more 'happy people' in the world if ignorance is bliss.''