#eat

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. ↗

— Irving Stone

#creation #creativity #art

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#death #life #love #tragedy #art

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. ↗

— Albert Camus

#art #creating #flowers #marcel-proust #wallpaper

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised ↗

— James Thurber

#creativity #mankind #art

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art-theory #creativity #design #emotion #matisse

Curiosity is the main energy... ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#artist #creativity #curiosity #rauschenberg #art

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#art #creativity #literature #music #painting

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. ↗

— Benjamin Zander

#contradiction #creativity #possibility #talent #art

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#creativity #performance #art

Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be… instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cheater #cheating #life #love #relationships