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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#art-criticism #modern-art #women #art

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#believers #metaphor #myth #organized-religion #religion

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #discovering #writing #you

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#civic-responsibility #history #humanity #life #mankind

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. ↗

— Claude Monet

#genius #obsession #passion #art

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. ↗

— Roman Payne

#artists #awkwardness #bizarre #clumsiness #good-art

sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen. ↗

— Melissa Jensen

#unrequited-love #art

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character? ↗

— Sara Shepard

#perfect #pretty-little-liars #art

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#inspirational #music #art

A line is a dot that went for a walk. ↗

— Paul Klee

#line #walk #went