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Daily Inspiration Quote by Frederick C. Frieseke

"Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless"

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Limitless choice is a painterly fantasy that doubles as a quiet dare. Coming from Frederick C. Frieseke - an American Impressionist known for sunlit interiors and figures caught in private, almost suspended moments - the line reads less like a motivational poster and more like an artistic posture: the present is the only studio that matters.

The key pressure point is "right now". Frieseke is smuggling urgency into what sounds like expansiveness. He isn't claiming life is easy; he's insisting that the field of action is always current. In a painter's world, possibility is bound to light, angle, attention, and the decision to commit a brushstroke. "Limitless" doesn't mean infinite outcomes so much as infinite ways of seeing. That matters because Impressionism is built on the premise that reality isn't a fixed object; it's a shifting experience shaped by perception.

There's also a subtle rebuke to paralysis. Artists are famously good at turning fear into research and doubt into "waiting for inspiration". Frieseke's sentence attacks that alibi. The choices are "available" - not hypothetical, not earned later, not blocked by some future version of yourself who finally becomes confident. You can change the composition, simplify the palette, start again, walk away, stay. The tyranny of the perfect plan dissolves into the practical freedom of the next move.

In an era when academic painting prized polish and predetermined outcomes, this is a manifesto for immediacy. It romanticizes agency, yes, but its real intent is discipline: act, observe, revise. The horizon isn't the point. The moment is.

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Frieseke, Frederick C. (2026, January 11). Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/your-range-of-available-choices-right-now-is-135567/

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Frieseke, Frederick C. "Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless." FixQuotes. January 11, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/your-range-of-available-choices-right-now-is-135567/.

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"Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless." FixQuotes, 11 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/your-range-of-available-choices-right-now-is-135567/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Frederick C. Frieseke

Frederick C. Frieseke (April 7, 1874 - August 24, 1939) was a Painter from USA.

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