Evelyn Lauder Quotes

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

A quiet mind cureth all.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.