#art

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#concrete #consist #essentially #existing #only

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beautiful #belongs #discovers #diverse

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#good #good way #having #hearty #internally

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capacity #destination #energy #fact #get

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#artists #because #been #fat #get

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#birth #carries #earth #free #gravity

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#artists #been #compared #goes #hundreds

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience. ↗

— David Coverdale

#been #certainly #display #feelings #heart

The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old. ↗

— David Coverdale

#coming #element #i #maybe #much

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. ↗

— Noel Coward

#always #am #due #having #i