#eve

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#explain #how #just #learn #never

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#existential #existentialism #life #metaphor #life

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see. ↗

— Paul Klee

#revelation #art

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#connected #else #empowered #everybody #everybody else

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with? ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#pain #perseverance #quitting #life

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#adventure #artist #every #expression #his

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#artist #culture #follow #free #him

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#perseverance #art

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#deep #deep down #die #down #every