#eat

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#craft #create #die #either #keep

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. I hope the overall view isn't just that though, or I've failed in my writing. There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. ↗

— Martin McDonagh

#art

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspirational #writing #art

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#childhood #disorder #labeled #labeling #leads

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life ↗

— Woody Allen

#perfection #reality #art

92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#death

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data. ↗

— David Rose

#created #data #enterprise #insert #people

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#dark #elves #fantasy #heart #life

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. ↗

— Edward Swift

#artistry #being-yourself #creativity #identity #self-knowledge

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one. ↗

— Jacques Roumain

#cluster #easy #eat #grapes #once