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“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
— Jackson Pollock
“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.”
— James Baldwin
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
— Michelangelo
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
— Claude Monet
“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written.
It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.”
— Galileo
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
— Philip K. Dick
“Love possesses not nor would it be possessed.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Every angel is terrifying.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The fact is that I had loved her for a long time without realizing it, because I had always loved her in other people.”
—Marcel Proust
“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
— Marcel Proust
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
— Marcel Proust
“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.”
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
“When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
— Romeo and Juliet
“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
— Claude Monet
“The more I paint, the more I like everything.”
—Basquiat
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett
“The way is in training.” — Miyamoto Musashi
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee
“Long-term consistency beats short-term intensity.” — Bruce Lee
“Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better.” — Jack Kerouac
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
— Nelson Mandela
the best rebellion is choosing to live a life of love.
“Patience is also a form of action.” — Auguste Rodin
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
— bell hooks
“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty, I stood firm; at forty, I had no more doubts; at fifty, I understood Heaven’s will.”
— Confucius
