#ife

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #emotions #life #art

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#beauty #life #love #nature #art

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#avalanche #bury #fallen #going #just

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead. ↗

— Austin Kleon

#creativity #inspiration #learning #life #success

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#beauty #famous-poets #life #philosophy #poetry

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#life #love #beauty

Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably stemmed from the deep human sorrow or hellish frustration,the death of a loved one or a divorce and yes:jealousy.Heartache and impotence as the man-spring for making the unverifiable verifiable and for giving it face.How romantic,beautiful and especially useful pain and misery can be. ↗

— Esther Verhoef

#close-up #esther-verhoef #life #pain #art

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. ↗

— Aberjhani

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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#inspirational #life-and-death #art

The thing about trees is that they know what to do. When a leaf loses its colour, it's not because its time is up and it's dying, it's because the tree is taking back into itself the nutrients the leaf's been holding in reserve for it, out there on the twig, and why leaves change colour in autumn is because the tree is preparing for winter, it's filling itself with its own stored health so it can withstand the season. Then, clever tree, it literally pushes the used leaf off with the growth that's coming behind it. But because that growth has to protect itself through winter too, the tree fills the little wound in its branch or twig where the leaf was with a protective corky stuff which seals it against cold and bacteria. Otherwise every leaf lost would be an open wound on a tree and a single tree would be covered in thousands of little wounds. Clever trees. ↗

— Ali Smith

#art