#insp

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. ↗

— Simone Weil

#courage #honesty #inspiration #status-quo #truth

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma

life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances! ↗

— Siddhartha Choudhary

#life #reality #attitude

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

— Lady Gaga

#inspirational #music #art

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#dreams #inspirational #nightmares #painting #art

I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. And that story, the story of the way you came through a difficult situation, found resources within yourself or outside of yourself, gleaned from that experience what you wanted and what you didn’t want going forward — that is a story that can inspire you and others to heal and grow. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#inspirational-quotes #experience

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cod #fish #humor #images #inspirational

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#inspirational #jocelyn #love #painting #art

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish. ↗

— Garth Stein

#art

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play,can't know serendipity unless you risk. ↗

— Joan Erickson

#inspiration #life #risk #serendipity #art