jamesTmckain - art

[jamestmckain-art]

Making sure you know who the fuck you are outside of work. Making sure you have an identity and you’re standing on your own two feet as a human being, living a human experience outside of what you do.

Eliot Rausch

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What's the answer?

The problem with being the solution to your own problems is this...how do you help yourself when you feel broken and beaten down? How does something that is broken fix itself?

[jamestmckain-art]

Searching

You are the solution to your problems. Your ability to grow and overcome trials is dependent on being fearless when looking at yourself and being honest about the person you are.

[jamestmckain-art]

Ok after a long break I feel it's time to post some new work. Since it's been such a long time since my last update, I'm going to treat you all with a full batch of new work instead of the usual one post a day thing I have done in the past. 

This is a series that what was done for first thursday and is currently hanging at The Crux, Boise, ID.  "Don't Let the Bastards Bring You Down" - 11 in. x 14 in. "The Bastards" - 3 in. x 3 in. All are done with graphite pencil. 

[beatae-memoriae]

No one heals himself by wounding another.

St. Ambrose of Milan   (via modernhepburn)

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You and only you are responsible for your fate. Life is no fun if you spend it hating on yourself; this stifles any progress you hope to make.

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dogpatch boulders fuckin rules. 14,000 sq feet of climbing goodness

[ifitnessmotivation]

http://ifitnessmotivation.tumblr.com/

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Couldn't have said this better myself. 

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

Ernest Hemingway (via likeafieldmouse)

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As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Steve Maraboli (via rainydaysandblankets)

[oh-teen-posts]

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Sometimes we have bittersweet moments with ourselves, where we have to lose something to move forward - allowing our minds to grow up and mature. -Christine Wu

http://www.juxtapoz.com/illustration/artist-interview-christine-wu

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Italo Calvino on writing, adding to history’s finest definitions of art.

[jamestmckain-art]

If she's dumb enough to walk away, be smart enough to let her go.

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"The Futility of Mimicry #4"

[weltenwellen]

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America (via souls-entwined)

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"The Futility of Mimicry #3"