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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

New Year's Resolution :

Only put off until tomorrow, what you are willing to die left undone

Plein air paintings

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Art has been a gift in my life. It has allowed me to live more richly and fully than I could otherwise imagine. But I'm especially lucky because art found me; I didn't find it.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

New Painting

Every moment is a golden one for her who has the vision to recognize it as such.

I will preach with my brush.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

In every living thing there is the desire for love

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual painter.

The Valentine Dress, oil on panel, 24x32 inches, $2,500

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

"study" and "finished composition

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Plein air paintings

Plein air paintings

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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

10 things that artists should be thankful for

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

invite to art shows in December 2011 and Solo Show in February2012

http://www.fountainheadgallery.com/pages/exhibitions/Gift_of_Art_Music/Thu_Nguyen_Smokestack_Medley.html

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Only do what your heart tells you.

sale ends December 10

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.