#imp

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expression #glory #letters #light #simplicity

I want to be famous but unknown! ↗

— Edgar Degas

#artist #edgar-degas #impressionism #art

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#creativity #failure #fantasy #impossible #writers

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#after #became #cancer #character #delved

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. ↗

— Thomas John Barnardo

#better #character #conduct #highest #importance

practice makes better ↗

— Brian Lies

#drawing #improving #practice #art

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#art

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#wisdom #life

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy. ↗

— Max McKeown

#improvement #inertia #leadership #strategy #age

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#patience #psychology #self-improvement #wisdom #art