#humor

It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the style of my thoughts, and I never think about my thoughts. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #representation #thoughts #art

You know there’s plenty of love to go around. It takes the right situation to bring it out of people – and all situations are right. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

What is art? ↗

— Liz Lemon

#art

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#performing-arts #art

Sometimes it seems that we initiate a scene and sometimes it seems that we’re just taking part in the scene. Actually, we’re initiating them all. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

How do you not let things bother you? By placing yourself out of the physical and emotional range of that which is bothering you. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

The thing is you cannot imagine what is going to happen next. If you're imagining it - it's from your imagination. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation. ↗

— Jim Hinckley

#inspirational #death

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. ↗

— Michele Brenton

#humor #inspirational #poet #poetry #art

That's a good attitude. You should hate me more, curse me more, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world. ↗

— Sorachi Hideaki

#humorous #life #manga #sarcasm #strength