#ira

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. ↗

— John Cheever

#fiction #inspirational #on-fiction #writing #art

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person. ↗

— China Miéville

#inspirational #art

Art is literacy of the heart. ↗

— Elliot Eisner

#heart #inspirational #literacy #art

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#art #creativity #epiphanic-moment #epiphany #inspirational

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#inspirational #art

What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we’re fearful, we become divided. When we’re courageous and have good leadership, we unite. ↗

— Keith Ellison

#inspirational #politics #politics-of-the-united-states #courage

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#hope #inspirational #mothers #stars #strength

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness. ↗

— Malcolm S. Forbes

#inspiration #art

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers. ↗

— Leon Uris

#bravery #courage #defiance #freedom #ghetto