#if

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#sacrifice #though #art

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#heaven #hope #inspirational #jrr-tolkien #life-lessons

Art is to console those who are broken by life. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life #quote #van-gogh #vincent-van-gogh #art

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#living-life #art

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#art #artsist #breath #breathing #designer

The Beautiful is always strange. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beautiful #strange #art

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. ↗

— Aberjhani

#cultural-arts #famous-poets #humanity #jazz #jazz-appreciation-month

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#art

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#giving #art

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you ↗

— Ginnetta Correli

#failure #life #suffering #writing #art