''I was born into Irish Catholicism now I am Irish Atheist ... redemption is not on my agenda.'' 

''The biggest hurt I had to deal with through out my life because of my honesty and sincerity in my words is rejection ... 

but it scares the bullshit out of people.''

''No person is immune from the fact that in our life time we 

will have to accept the consequence's for every thought 

and action we have, for everything there is a reaction 

but don't let fear stop you.''

''Turn a blind eye and you are likely to get your butt kicked.'' 

''Having a creative mind can save you from boredom but, 

you pay the price in that everything else is boring.'' 

''A genius is dangerous amongst mediocrity minds and 

that's why there are few geniuses about.''

''I was born innocent into this world and my hope was to die innocent but that's not possible so I will die a lot more wiser.''

''You are where you are because of your thoughts 

and you are going where your thoughts bring you

and maybe you have ended up where you need to be.''  

''The fool can assume to be giving advice to the wise man 

but the wise man will keep his mouth shout.'' 

''Behind every successful man is the fear of failure.'' 

''It is very easy to be critical of others 

but try spending the day in being 

critical of yourself in the same way.''

''I was born into Irish Catholicism now I am an Irish Atheist ...   I got the dreaded travel bug ... hello freedom.''

''For me finishing in my work is always the hardest thing 

to decide until I learned to let the work tell me when to finish.''

''Art without emotion is like watching paint dry.''

 

''Sometimes getting what you want is not 

always the best thing ... but that's destiny.'' 

''Religion is something like being in a dark pit grouping around for a ladder that is not there and shouting at the top of your voice  ...

'I know it's here because I was told by my parents, my teachers, 

  ... and the nice men in black.'' 

   ''Within a genuine love relationship judgement is not part of it.''

''I was born into Irish Catholicism now I am an Irish Atheist ... common sense took over.''

''If only I can get my head out of the shit 

and smell the roses and stop taking it seriously ... 
it just might get better.'' 

''One thing you will find alive, well and consistent 

throughout life is ... scams.''

''I get angry when I see major cities spending big budgets 

on new year fireworks displays when the money could be spent 
in better ways for the benefit of the less well off .''

''In a truly moral society racism would just be a 

very bad word.''

'Bands-of-friends' are like a roaming pack of dogs, 

when one barks they all bark even if some don't know 

why they are barking.''

''Peace between countries is maintained by the threat of

retaliation by violence or economic collapse.''

''The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to believe
that their work is good ...

                                        if you do, creativity will stop.''

''You need more than talent to be an artist ...

you also need the balls of a giraffe, 
so nobody can kick you.''

''I cannot wash my back because of the thirteen monkeys on it.''

''As I get older I find that waking up each day is wiping 

the smile off my face.''

''I have no quote today because my mind is .... 
[ finish it ].''

''It is not your place to 'pray' to a god for someone else, 

do you think you know what's best for them ...''

''There is no such experience as 'inner peace' 

unless you are drugged to the eyeballs, in a coma 

or six feet under.''

''Remember, because some of us are living 
in a free world it's because others 

died for it ... 
people care, governments don't.''

''This time of the year, December, through out my whole life including when I was a child has always been an embarrassment for me because it is taken for granted by the fact of the colour of my skin where I was born and my culture by all who see or meet me that I also believe in the story of a male child born to a virgin in what has always through out history being the most troubled part 

of the world, came here to earth to save mankind from himself and that, somehow along the way a fat guy dressed in red with a white beard winning over innocent children to sit on his knee by giving out gifts, of-course with smiling parents approval .. suspicious .. 

and that can fly across the sky with reindeers pulling a sledge 

with more gifts for children all over the world asleep in their beds,   {also suspicious} in this one magic night .. and three 'wise guys' on camels somewhere in a desert and also bearing gifts to witness this wonderful event in the history of mankind that will live on and be retold to generation after generation, but only for those who believe in the 'baby-born-of-a-virgin' story and the guy with the beard how 

he got mixed up in all of this  .. it beats me ... 

but the majority of people and some highly intelligent for the 

other eleven months of the year are quite happy to accept this handed-down story with added-on 'thrills' as being true, especially those in business, which reminds me of another handed-down story, the 'Clenching of the Temple' ..''

''I ask myself ... 'where have I gone wrong' ... 

but the voice in my head tells me ... 

'you haven't .. this is your journey'.''

''Anxiety is your little friend that digs away at your mind.''

''You have the ability to choose your morals, 

your faith, but to hate your fellow man and kill 

for a love of a god seems total madness.''

''I do not make sculpture out of  'good feelings' 

because my art has no importance to any body else 
but me,  so if I don't create there is nothing else for me 
to feel 'good' in a world that is full of insincerity ...

but tell me if I am wrong ... 

every 'true' artist is at war with himself and the world.''

''The truth will always hurt but better to hear than lies that can kill.''

''Since the beginning of time man has always felt stronger 

physically and sociologically in groups or little 
'bands-of-friends' that no longer think for themselves or 
have their independence but rather think as the group, 
this is human survival and what has helped mankind to 
survive as hunters and gathers which we still do today 
and most adapted in different ways to suit our times.  

The one who can be on his own and not part of the group is 

a treat and will never be accepted unless he conforms to the majority in thinking and support of the group, whether right or wrong. 'Bands-of-friends' are like a roaming pack of dogs, 

when one barks they all bark even if some don't 
know why they are barking.'' 

''The one thing that is guaranteed in life is death and all your life will be forgotten when you are dead ..   just like some people who are forgotten when they are alive.'' 

''Religion can be compared to someone 

who is blind from birth that goes through life 

bumping into everything and telling everyone, 

including skeptics, they can 'see'.'' 

''Good minded people generally will always think 

and feel it's their fault when there is trouble, 

 on the other hand, 

bad minded people will deny and will never take 

the blame for anything.''

''Keep people close to you in your life 
who bring out the best in you 
and get rid of the hangers-on.''

'' We live in crazy times that creativity for me is the 
best way to escape into my own self-discovery but, 
without my art, chaos and confusion is a cocktail 

for the mind to go off  the rails at any time, 

therefore art and emotion, when harmonizes, 
can give me an awareness of my 'aesthetic-emotion' ... 

to cut the bullshit .. it's called ... 

'living on the edge'.''  

''GOSSIP KILLS ...''

''Remember ... by not getting what you want is 

sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck ... 

but you will never know.''

''You can play it safe, continue as you have being doing, 

all your life ... and call it surviving .... 

but is that enough.''

''You should respect yourself and have the courage 

to walk away from people, relationships and things 

that have no use or direct negative energy towards you.''

''We have religions in the world because 

they are based on the belief that a 'devil' 

from another, but dark 'world' exists, and that a 'god' 

from a heaven, that seems to have it's existence 

in the clouds, is going to save us ... 

the stuff that good movies are made from.''

''Any kind of change is only brought about 

when people want to change the accepted 'rules' 

of a last generation of thinking or the time they are living in, but most changes incur violence of some nature 

to make that change for a future generation only to 

want to make a change.'' 

''The artist can turn the emotions around 

and into an art work.''  

''Mankind will continue to go to war over religion, 

oil and a future war that has yet to happen, water.''

''Can I tell you something that I believe is to be a lie ...

'god bless you'.''

''Sadness is non compatible with sadness.''

''It does not matter if people believe or don't believe 

in your capabilities as an artist, though it will be a 

sociological wall in front of you ... 

what does matter is that you believe in yourself at all times.''

''If you feel like saying something stupid 

stick out your tongue and bite 
down hard.''        

''Be sure to let people see you when you 

are happy, it will give them something 

to talk about.''

''The bad ones always live longer 

and the good ones die younger 

but maybe they are needed else where.''

''Sometimes I feel I even have to think for God.''

''In real life there is no such thing as 'original sin' because from what I can tell we don't 

walk around gardens naked listening to 

serpents telling us to eat apples 

to know 'all things' ... 

but then again, maybe some do.''

''It seems, though again no proof, 

that this thing 'karma' is always with us, 

so some 'peace in mind' for you ... 

how people treat you is their karma 

and how you react to it is your karma, 

which comes down to life being a 
'Catch 22'.'' 

''No one knows what is going to happen 

in the future let alone the next minute 

but we still go on with living 

because of the fear of the unknown 

in death.''

''I would study my own sculptures to inspire myself 

to move on to the next sculpture in that it 

will be better than the one's before it ...

it's all about taking steps forward and not back.''

''In politics, by no means is insanity a handicap,

just look at the governments.''

''I'm not brushing my teeth because 

I will be only wasting the beer.''

''The only people who have seen an end 

to war are dead one's.''

''You can never live your life if you are 
looking for the meaning of life.''

''My art is what I do for my reason for 'being' in that, 

I take full responsibility for my actions in challenging 

politics, religion and society in the hope people will see

 'things' through different eyes.''

''You don't know woman until she feels she

is wronged.''

''Religion is imposed on children by birth and by society

who assume adults should know better ...

this is the first known scam to human beings.''

''Everything outside of your self made you

as you are ... you are set on a path of life by

your birth-place and family and if you can have the answer

as to why ... it's not true.''

''I have a diverse effect on people mainly because I say what is on my mind and so

my honesty can be an amusement to some

and unbearable to others.''

''When we are in doubt or afraid we do not
live our life but when we are in love
we want to live for ever and life becomes

too short.''

My painting acrylic on board 0.61m x 0.41m

 ''A Moment in a Rose Garden''

''If you are searching for happiness would you know it if you 'found' it ... because it's another state of emotion that can fool you into trusting which

leaves the emotions vulnerable for hurt which is

in turn another state of emotion.''

''If you tell people you are happy in being yourself

then try to find someone who is happy for you

because you are happy .''

''We should be looking at the world through our

own eyes, feelings and emotions not through

the eyes and experiences of others.''

''Say you rename Adam and Eve as Jack and Jill how

does the Garden of Eden story read to you now.''

''I fear you will fail to discover all the wonderful things

that God has placed around us ....

ohhh, so many apple trees.''

''A true artist's being is all about creativity,

the rest ... 

 is inconvenience bullshit that gets in the

way of creativity''

''The most effective that the artwork is in it's message that can incorporate universal concerns from nature to human beings is the one that speaks beyond the boundaries of any community or nation and will always have it's place in the moral consciousness of all human beings ...
that is why all through-out history religions
and governments used artists for their
propaganda messages, that will in the future
have a stronger play within cultures and the
one-and-all universal culture and new god ... dollar.''

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''When dogma enters the mind your
freewill is no more.'' 

''Life returns to a void where nothing returns from,
but as human beings most refuse to believe in this
 because we are believer's in our own myths that
the mind creates from our 'comfort zone'.''

''It's very easy to act and be the genius
when you are surrounded by fools.''

''We human beings I would think has the advantage over 
all forms of life in that some of us will admit to knowing 

we are dying from the day we are born and others, 

like all other forms of life, will never give it a thought.'' 

''Children do better when parents encourage them rather than criticizing, condemning and judging .. 
my own mother would not agree.''

''Cancer is nature's way of culling,

war is man's way.''

''No artist evolves out of nothing.''  

''There are two ways to live life as I see it, 

one is to believe in yourself and trust no one 

because everyone has a motivation and the second 

way is to believe there is a god and trust 

that he has no motivation.''

''You believe in the words written down by someone else, 

a person you have never met, someone who is long dead,

 of a different time and mindset to be true ... sad.''

''If you strongly feel that you have a reason 

to live then you also have a reason to die.''

''The most near-to-perfect experience we can have is to be at peace with our self's.''

''I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ignorant to it's own destruction.'' 

''Sometimes it's best to cry wolf than 
fall down and pray.''

''No question, genuine imagination is 
infectious amongst artists, 

but totally impossible to emulate.''

''I abandoned being human to be an artist 

and I believe that the art made by me 

is from a 'true' human who can feel 

the isolation that can bring rejection, 
the self-doubts that can move to despair 
and then comes the ridicule followed by contempt and even humiliation,
but all that can make me feel human 
to be the artist that I am.'' 

''Millions of people throughout history and including our own time have died for and because of their beliefs and not one had any proof of a god ... so much killing on the basics 

of reading and interpreting so called 

'holy books'.''

''Sometimes I wake up in the morning 

thinking I'm not going to make it ...

{the bed}.'' 

''Creativity takes 'a no bullshit attitude' that it takes a real artist to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.''  

''In the process of making my sculpture I can find new emotions 

in myself that can take control in the art but lose them when 

I leave the work .... 

now you tell me what you know about yourself.''

''If you want something you never had 
then do something you never did ...
be your self.''

''Everyone 'knows' something about God,

unfortunately, not everyone knows something about toleration.''

''My life is not about 'finding' myself  
because I already know where I am, 
its about living it.''

''In the big picture people are not evil by choice, they are just lacking love.''

''There are more profits to be made in 
illness than there is in a cure.''

''The world is run by insane people who know what's best for you ...
in politics insanity is not a handicap.''

 ''I am not into writing a thesis about religion
so I am going to make it short here ... 

one has 'one story' and another

has 'one story' and many more has
'one story' and 'one story' and
'one story' plus all the 'stories' 
makes many confusing 'stories'.''

''I do not live in 'hope' because it's wishful thinking on my part and not what destiny had in mind, I live in a reality that has all the signs of kicking my ass in and that's more like what destiny has in store for me.''

''In less than fifty years we have made major leaps with technology that it has taken on a 'life' of it's own

and yet in medicine we are still in the 'dark ages' ...

it seems to me it is quite acceptable to play the 'God'

in technology but not in medicine. 

''There is one honour in life and it's the way in how

you die and cancer is not that honour.''

''When I meet so many religious and political people around me it only encourages me to be sarcastic.''

''People start tripping themselves up when telling lies that they forget their own lies.''

''All wars are symptoms of man's fear, his ego and failure to think of his fellow human beings.''

''When you begin to realize that nothing is perfect in life that there are trade-offs
and sacrifices, then you get on with
living your life.''

''My imagination is my only friend, there is plenty of room for bullshit without

being critical on myself.''

''The 'God' that people die for depends on 
us as human beings for it is our 'belief' 

that 'God' is achieved.'' 

''So many sculptures to make,

so little time left.''

 ''Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head, a bit  like jumping off a cliff and knowing someone is there to catch you,

at the bottom ...

step aside, coming through.''

''As human beings we are ill-equip going into adult hood let alone taking on relationships due to the  emotional baggage we pick up as children.''

''I have a deep and profound mistrust for all politicians ... but I am an optimist,

the truth lies somewhere in between.''

''Speaking as an atheist ... imagine if there is a god,

and one that likes a joke, I would think that atheism

 would seem less of an insult and treat to him 

then religion does.''

''Contrary to a popular 'belief ' ..
[more than half of the worlds population]

I am ready as I will ever be for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.''

''Corruption comes out of fear and greed.''

''I want to narrow my misery options
to death and my life options
to my art.''

''I was born into a Christian family and I am sure that during their time they fought for that right and belief but I never considered myself to be a totally free human being because with my freewill I should be making my own choices.''



''What a woman wants in a man is trust,

what a man wants in a woman is woman.''

''One of the greatest tasks in life

for anyone is to live out a delusion in reality of one's own devising.''

''If you do not say what's on your mind

it will eat away at you and you are in for

a slow death.''

''There are no experts but reality.''

''What kept me out of mental hospitals was my work

 but one needs some chaos in the mind to be creative.''

''The one thing I am disappointed in life

with is human beings.''

''As being responsible for my own choices in life

and I say to myself ...

 ''I can get through this'' ... then I will

and if I also say to myself ...

''I can't get through this'' ... then I will.''

''It is best to try to change the 'thoughts' that

become programed and accepted by the mind

than to leave it all to chance.''

''It can be the same bullshit but

with different people.''

''There are no self-appointed experts in this world but reality's lesson.''

''Your future is mapping out by the decision you are making now.''

''I have gone through life

in trusting people on their word ...

how naive I was.''

''If you can't say anything ...

then don't talk bullshit.''

''What makes a good writer is .. 

being a good liar.''

''I try to make it easy for everybody

fools included.''

''Flattery comes with a motive and looks like friendship just like the wolf looks

like the dog.''

''Nine out of ten times you can tell a

man's life story by 'reading' his face 

but when 'reading' a woman's,

well ... she has it down to the

 'art of fiction'.

''Men do their thinking in two heads,

the big head and the small head.''

''Happy ever after don't last for long.''

''Ignorance is the enemy of freedom.''

''When you are in the prime of youth and health you can go that much longer without money but when you are in

old age you cannot get out of the

bed without money.''

''Elephants do not fly only because they do not have wings.''

''Flattery comes with a motive and looks like friendship.''

''When you stop seeing the things in your life as the way to show you the things in your life then you are blind to all things.''

Love or hatred ...

the two emotions in humans that can drive you to insanity. In every moment new reasons are found for loving or hating somebody,

in words written or spoken, actions,

colour of skin, religious belief's or

just by thoughts.''



''POLITICAL PRISONER''

http://www.deedaf.blogspot.com/



 

''When you are surrounded by fools
act the 'bigger' fool then you are
the genius.''

''There are two days you have little or no control over and certainly no say in ...

the day you are born in, Birth-day and the day you will die, Death-day and what happens in between these two days is destined by

birth and death.''



My sculpture ... ''The Time Keeper''



''Old men can forget what it was like

to be young ..

young men don't want to know what it

will be like to be old.''

''It's no easy thing to give advice to somebody if they themselves are locked into their own fear.''

''Freewill ... is it something that we

think we have the full use of ...

outside of the mind the world is full of other 'in-formations' ...

either we choose our own thoughts or others will do it for you.''

''Everything of this world including this world is not permanent so be prepared for the nasty surprises that life has in store for you.''

''If you go through life in taking

nothing for granted you will have

few disappointments.''

''Most people will tend to hide their faults

and mistakes in life but an artist in

wisdom will exhibit his.''

''Religion was invented by people who pray to a 'god', 'idle' or 'deity' for their own personal salvation and needs but who do not want to think for themselves and be responsible for their own morals, ethics and actions.''

My Story Box ....
''Testing The Divine One''