150 Amazing Quotes

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.Life is life, fight for it.

~Mother eresa

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+hen say artist mean the one who is building things - some with a brush some

with a shovel some choose a pen. ~/ackson 0ollock

he main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. ~*uguste !odin

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~/ohn +. 1ardner

*rt doesn2t have to be pretty. t has to be meaningful. ~Duane Hanson

o draw, you must close your eyes and sing ~0ablo 0icasso

*rt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ~homas Merton

1o and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic

mistakes. 3reak rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make.

1ood. *rt. ~4eil 1aiman

he earth has music for those who listen. ~+illiam 5hakespeare

*rt is not a thing, it is a way. ~6lbert 7ubbard

*rt is when you hear a knocking from your soul 8 and you answer. ~erri 1uillemets

*rt reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self'consciousness. 9reedom discovers man

the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.~3ruce Lee
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am interested in art as a means of living a life: not as a means of making a living.

~!obert 7enri

+e dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears,we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

~*lbert 6instein

*rt attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ~/ean'Luc 1odard

+hen it is working, you completely go into another place, you2re tapping into things

that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. hat2s what it2sall about. ~;eith 7aring

he obon2t cheat us of your contribution. 1ive us what

you2ve got. ~5teven 0ressfield

*rt is a collaboration between 1od and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

~*ndre 1ide

*rt will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle betweenwisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. ~Magdalena

*bakanowicz

*s music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight. ~/ames Mc4eil+histler

* piece of art is never a finished work. t answers a (uestion which has been asked, and

asks a new (uestion. ~!obert 6ngman

he reason that art ?writing, engaging, and all of it@ is valuable is precisely why can2t

tell you how to do it. f there were a map, there2d be no art, because art is the act ofnavigating without a map. ~5eth 1odin

*s my artist2s statement eAplains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore

full of deep significance ~=alvin and 7obbes

1reat art picks up where nature ends. ~Marc =hagall

5eA is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.~5cott !oeben0ersonality is everything in art and poetry. ~1oethe


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4o artist is ahead of his time. 7e is his time, it2s egas

*ny fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it. ~5amuel

3utler

*rt is literacy of the heart ~6lliot 6isner

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)n 3eauty. . .

*rt must be an eApression of love or it is nothing. ~Marc =hagall

*t some point in life the world2s beauty becomes enough. Cou don2t need to

photograph, paint, or even remember it. t is enough. ~oni Morrison

Let the beauty we love be what we do. here are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the

ground. ~!umi

t is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength, and whosoever loves muchperforms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

~Dincent van 1ogh

+eeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. ~*.*. Milne

he most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, knownsuffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. hese

persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them

with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. 3eautiful people do not


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he best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but

must be felt with the heart. ~7elen ;eller

he most beautiful thing we can eAperience is the mysterious. t is the source of all trueart and science. ~*lbert 6instein

3eauty is the illumination of your soul. ~/ohn )2>onohue

+e can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our

treasures. ~hornton +ilder

he only oubt those who find it. ~*ndre 1ide


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t is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~/.;. !owling

would rather be ashes than dustB

would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifledby dry'rot.

would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepyand permanent planet.

he function of man is to live, not to eAist. shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.

shall use my time.

~/ack London

he truth will set you free. 3ut first, it will piss you off. ~1loria 5teinem

cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that can

do. ~ /ana 5tandfield

+hatever you are, be a good one. ~*braham Lincoln

5ome people feel the rain. )thers


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+e need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. f we

cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential

to create. 6volution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open'hearted vision of people who embrace life. ~/ohn Lennon

0romise me you2ll always remember" you2re braver than you believe, and stronger thanyou seem, and smarter than you think. ~=hristopher !obin ?to 0ooh@

Cou must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~1andhi

think am, therefore, am. think- ~1eorge =arlin

Fnbeing dead isn2t being alive. ~e.e. cummings

4ow and then it2s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and ifferent 5easons@

am seeking. am striving. am in it with all my heart. ~Dincent van 1ogh

+ise men speak because they have something to say: fools because they have to saysomething. ~0lato

0eople are often unreasonable and self'centered.

9orgive them anyway.

f you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.


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3e kind anyway.

f you are honest, people may cheat you.

3e honest anyway.f you find happiness, people may be o good anyway.

1ive the world the best you have and it may never be enough.

1ive your best anyway.~Mother eresa

alent hits a target no one else can hit: 1enius hits a target no one else can see. ~*rthur

5chopenhauer

am not here to change the world. am changing the world because am here. ~Lisa

+ilson

+hat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lives

within us. ~6merson

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)n =onformity. . .

think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you eAcept yourself ~!ita Mae

3rown

3e yourself: everyone else is already taken. ~)scar +ilde

f decide to be an idiot, then 2ll be an idiot on my own accord. ~/ohann 5ebastian

3ach

>on2t bend: water it down: or make it logical: don2t edit your soul for fashion. 9ollow

intense obsessions mercilessly. ~9ranz ;afka

*ll can be is me 8 whoever that is. ~3ob >ylan

Cou are not in this world to live up to other people2s eApectations, nor should you feel

the world must live up to yours. ~ 9. 0erl

he things that make me different are the things that make me. ~*. *. Milne

Cour time is limited, so don2t waste it living someone else2s life. ~5teve /obs

3e faithful to that which eAists within yourself. ~*ndrG 1ide


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5tuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you2d drop dead in ten seconds. 5ee the world.

t2s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ~!ay 3radbury

5tyle is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn ~1oreDidal

>on2t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you: figure out what you

have to say. t2s the one and only thing you have to offer. ~3arbara ;ingsolver

+e2re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance ~Fnknown

Cour time is limited, so don2t waste it living someone else2s life. >on2t be trapped bydogma 8 which is living with the results of other people2s thinking. >on2t let the noise

of others2 opinions drown out your own inner voice. *nd most important, have the

courage to follow your heart and intuition. hey somehow already know what you truly

want to become. 6verything else is secondary. ~5teve /obs

t is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ~*ndrG 1ide

here are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn2t

matter which path you take. he only person wasting time is the one who runs around the

mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong. ~7indu proverb

0oor is the soul whose pleasure depends upon the permission of another ~Madonna

5elfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to

live. ~)scar +ilde

o create one2s world in any of the arts takes courage. ~1eorgia )2;eeffe

here is a voice inside of youhat whispers all day long,

H feel this is right for me,

know that this is wrong.2

4o teacher, preacher, parent, friend)r wise man can decide

+hat2s right for you


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>o not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~6merson

!esist much. )bey little. ~+alt +hitman

f you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it2s not yourpath. Cour own path you make with every step you take. hat2s why it2s your path.

~/oseph =ampbell

f you can2t beat them,


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Cou don2t make art, you find it ~0ablo 0icasso

=reativity is essentially a lonely art. *n even lonelier struggle. o some a blessing. o

others a curse. t is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from yourvery soul an idea. ~Lou >orfsman

he chief enemy of creativity is good sense. ~0ablo 0icasso

Life isn2t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~1.3. 5haw

6verything2s already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.

~*ndre 1ide

=reativity takes courage. ~7enri Matisse

6veryone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. * child or a

book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. )r a garden planted.5omething your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die,

and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you2re there. t doesn2tmatter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before

you touched it into something that2s like you after you take your hands away. he

difference between the man who


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=reativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is

found. ~/ames !ussell Lowell

9ree your mind and your ass will follow ~1eorge =linton

*rt is not about thinking something up. t is the oppositegetting something down.~/ulia =ameron

=reativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. *rt is knowing which ones to keep.

~5cott *dams

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)n 6Aperience. . .

o practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. 5o

do it. ~;urt Donnegut

am not what happened to me, am what choose to become. ~/ung

>on2t think about making art,


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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.Life is life, fight for it.

~Mother eresa

Cou may not be a 0icasso or Mozart but you don2t have to be. /ust create to create.=reate to remind yourself you2re still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make

something too. =reate to learn a bit more about yourself. ~9rederick erral

+e are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and eAperiences, but to be

whittled and sandpapered until what2s left is who we truly are. ~*rianna 7uffington

9inish each day and be done with it. Cou have done what you could. 5ome blunders andabsurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. omorrow is a new day. Cou

shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old

nonsense. ~6merson

here is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. Cou certainly usually findsomething, if you look, but it is not always (uite the something you were after. ~/.!.!.

olkien

he reward of art is not fame or success but intoAication. ~=yril =onnolly

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. 6verything we shut our eyes to,everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat

us in the end. +hat seems nasty, painful, or evil, can become a source of beauty, avid 3ayles

;nowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ~/imi 7endriA

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)n 9ailure . . .

*n artist cannot fail: it is a success to be one. ~=harles 7orton =ooley

* man can fail many times, but he isn2t a failure until he begins to blame somebody

else. ~/ohn 3urroughs

t may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, andthen we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real


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9ail, fail again, fail better ~5amuel 3eckett

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)n 9aith. . .

he greater the artist, the greater the doubt. 0erfect confidence is granted to the less

talented as a consolation prize. ~!obert 7ughes

9aith is taking the first step even when you can2t see the whole staircase. ~MartinLuther ;ing /r.

Cou2ve got to learn your instrument. hen, you practice, practice, practice. *nd then,

when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and estiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does.he picture you have in your own mind of what you2re about will come true. ~3ob

>ylan

he bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp ~/ohn 3erry

5uccess is not final, failure is not fatal 8 it is the courage to continue that counts.

~+inston =hurchill

+e know what we are, but not what we may be. ~+illiam 5hakespeare

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

~!alph +aldo 6merson

+e have to continually be


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by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as

good as your ambitions. *nd took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone 2ve

ever met. t2s gonna take awhile. t2s normal to take awhile. Cou2ve oubt. . .

Listen to the mustn2ts, child. Listen to the don2ts. Listen to the shouldn2ts, theimpossibles, the won2ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me- *nything

can happen, child. *nything can be. ~5hel 5ilverstein

>on2t


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he cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ~/oseph =ampbell

2ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and 2ve never let it keep me

from doing a single think that wanted to do. ~1eorgia )2;eeffe

>o not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.~6ugene >elacroiA

+e do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is

valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. )nce we believe in

ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any eAperience thatreveals the human spirit. ~e.e. cummings

Cou are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your depths where life calmly gives

out it2s own secret ~!ilke

t2s not denial. 2m


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o be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

~/asper /ohns

+e cannot live only for ourselves. * thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men:and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come

back to us as effects. ~7erman Melville

+hen you learn, teach, when you get, give. ~Maya *ngelou

alent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for

it is not of our making. ~/ose Marti

7e neither serves nor rules, he transmits. 7is position is humble and the beauty at the

crown is not his own. 7e is merely a channel ~0aul ;lee

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don2t be sorry. ~/ack ;erouac

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)n magination. . .

his world is but a canvas to our imagination. ~horeau

here are always flowers for those who want to see them. ~7enri Matisse

he artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place" from the sky,from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider2s web.

~0ablo 0icasso

!eality is whatever refuses to go away when stop believing in it. ~0hilip ;. >ick

would challenge you to a battle of wits, but see you are unarmedB ~+illiam5hakespeare

shut my eyes in order to see. ~0aul 1auguin

o imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. ~*natole 9rance

Cou need not leave your room. !emain sitting at your table and listen. Cou need noteven listen, simply wait,


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4o artist tolerates reality. ~4ietzsche

+ho looks outside, dreams- who looks inside, awakes. ~=arl /ung

hink outside the boA, collapse the boA, and take a fking sharp knife to it. ~3anksy

6veryone has talent. +hat is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark placewhere it leads ~6rica /ong

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)n Madness. . .

+e work in the dark, we give what we have. )ur doubt is our passion, and our passion

is our task. he rest is the madness of art. ~7enry /ames

hose who danced were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.~4ietzsche

3eing crazy isn2t enough. ~>r. 5euss

9ollow your inner moonlight: don2t hide the madness. ~*llen 1insberg

he only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the

restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all eAcept those

similarly afflicted. ~)sbert 5itwell

+hen in doubt, make a fool of yourself. here2s a thin line between being brilliantlycreative and acting like the biggest idiot on earth ~=ynthia 7eimel

4ot everyone is capable of madness: and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many

have the courage for it. ~*ugust 5trindberg

he stupid believe that to be truthful is easy, only the artist, the great artist, knows howdifficult it is. ~+illa =ather

)ne would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon

whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~1eorge )rwell

3eing an author is having angels whisper in your ear and devils, too. ~1raycie7armon

Many people hear voices when no'one is there. 5ome of them are called mad and are

shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. )thers are called writers and they

do pretty much the same thing. ~Meg =hittenden


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+hat give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what have seen in darkness.

~M.=. 6scher

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)n +ork. . .

+ork inspires inspiration. ;eep working. f you succeed, keep working. f you fail, keepworking. f you2re interested, keep working. f you2re bored, keep working. ~Michael

=richton

believe humans get a lot done, not because we2re smart, but because we have thumbs

so we can make coffee. ~9lash !osenberg

5top talking. 5tart walking. ~L.M. 7erouA

=reate like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. ~=onstantin 3rancusi

Cou can2t wait for inspiration. 5ometimes you have to go after it with a club. ~ /ack

London

2m killing time while wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

~=alvin K 7obbes

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need a homely home and

simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to

love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little

more than enough to drink: for thirst is a dangerous thing. ~/erome ;. /erome

don2t wait for moods. Cou accomplish nothing if you do that. Cour mind must know it

has got to get down to work ~0earl 5. 3uck

alent is cheap: dedication is eApensive. t will cost you your life. ~rving 5tone

am seeking. am striving. am in it with all my heart. ~Dincent van 1ogh

o see far is one thing, going there is another. ~=onstantin 3rancusi

9ailure is the path of least persistence ~*uthor unknown

hose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ~5alvador >ali

4ever retreat. 4ever eAplain. 1et it done and let them howl. ~3en


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)n +riting. . .

7ave your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly 8 all these

make for great stories. ~=huck 0alahniuk

f you have to find devices to coaA yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps youshould not be writing what you2re writing. *nd if this lack of motivation is a constantproblem, perhaps writing is not your forte. mean, what is the problemE f writing bores

you, that is pretty fatal. f that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it on2t market yourself. 6ditors and readers don2t know what they want until they see it.5cratch what itches. +rite what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your

life. 0lay at the serious (uestions of life and death. ~>onald M. Murray

Cou ask me why spend my life writingE >o find entertainmentE s it

worthwhileE *bove all, does it payE f not, then, is there a reasonE- write only becausethere is a voice within me. hat will not be still. ~5ylvia 0lath

Cou have to write the book that wants to be written. *nd if the book will be too difficult

for grown'ups, then you write it for children. ~Madeleine L26ngle

+e do not write as we want, but as we can. ~+. 5omerset Maugham

sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil. ~3illy

=ollins

Cou don2t have to burn books to destroy a culture. /ust get people to stop reading them.~!ay 3radbury

)ne of the things know about writing is this" spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all,right away, every time. >o not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for

another book: give it, give it all, give it now. 5omething more will arise for later,

something better. ~*nnie >illard

7ow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~horeau

he writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don2t dare

reveal. ~6lia ;azan

t2s much more important to write than to be written about. ~1abriel 1arcia Mar(uez

5o the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader

who reads. ~>r. 5euss

*ny word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. ~5tephen ;ing


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rue storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~7annah

*rendt

never think when write. 4obody can do two things at the same time and do them bothwell ~>on Mar(uis

* little talent is good to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real re(uirement is

the ability to remember every scar. ~5tephen ;ing

+riting is a struggle against silence. ~=arlos 9uentes

6very author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.~1oethe

* writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~;arl ;raus

9iction is the truth inside the lie. ~5tephen ;ing

+ords are things. * small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that

which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ~3yron

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