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[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. ↗


— Alain de Botton


#art #criticism #desire #films #gravity

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life! ↗


— E.A. Bucchianeri


#artist #artistic #artists #artists-life #arts

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned. ↗


— E.A. Bucchianeri


#college-degree #credentials #degree #funny #humor

He first made inquiry as to the religion of each of us and found Episcopalians, Roman Catholics and Presbyterians. The suggestion that we should say the Lord's Prayer together met with instant approval, and our voices with one accord burst forth in repeating that great appeal to the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, and the only prayer that everyone of us knew and could unite in, thereby manifesting that we were all sons of God and brothers to each other whatever our sphere in life or creed might be. ↗


— Archibald Gracie


#religion #titanic #life

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generations. We'll be forgotten, but our books and essays, our stories and poems can survive us. . . ↗


— Lee Gutkind


#writers-on-writing #writing #writing-life #art

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ↗


— Pablo Picasso


#daily #daily life #dust #life #off

Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what i wish to surround myself with. Sacrifice your time and energy into something positive instead of the negative and you will see that change around you. ↗


— Lorin Morgan-Richards


#love #pawn #sacrifice #war #art

فى كل مرة برفع ايدى للسما بيبقى فى نيتى ادعى بحاجات كتير قوى واول ما اقف بين ادينا ربنا مش بعرف اقول غير يارب يارب يارب يارب .. وانت العالم باللى فى قلبى يارب ↗


— Doaa' Gamil


#religion #religion

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us. ↗


— Cornel West


#philosophy-of-life #death

The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing. ↗


— Håkan Nesser


#life #death






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