Some interesting food for your thoughts.

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100  people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, the village would consist of the following:

- 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the western Hemisphere (both north and south)

     8 Africans

- 52 would be female, 48 would be male

- 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white

- 70 would be non-christian, 30 would be christian

- 6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth and all  would be from the U.S.

- 80 would live in sub standard housing, 70 would be unable to read

- 50 would suffer from malnutrition, 1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth

- 1 (yes only 1) would have a college education

- 1 would own a computer

- If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed      than the million who will not survive the week.

- If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.

- If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

- If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare, even in the U.S.

Live life to the fullest, day by day, and never forget how fortunate you are.

These are some Artist Quotes that I could relate to. Enjoy...

"The Greatest Discovery is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind."  William James

"I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time." Pablo Picasso

"I don't believe in not seeing the negative. But you can take that negative and make it a positive. Change the form and you can change your life." Faith Ringgold

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." James Mcneill Whistler

"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso

"Art is a lie that helps us realize the truth." Pablo Picasso

"A man paints with his brains not with his hands." Michelangelo

"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms." Roy Lichtenstein

"No amount of skillfull invention can replace the essential element of imagination." Edward Hopper

"What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."

Eugene Delacroix

"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. Its what you do with it that counts." Martin Ritt

"I shut my eyes in order to see." Paul Gauguin

"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." George Tooker

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso

"A yo its all poison, ecstacy, coke
You say its love and its poison
Schools where I learned they should be burned, it is poison
Physicians prescripting us medicine which is poison
Doctors injecting our infants with the poison
Religion misoverstood is poison" Nas

"Drugs dont harm me, they're what set me free from this society." Butters