#me

true apothecary thy drugs art quick ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poison #romeo-and-juliet #sad #art

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#comedy #laughter #art

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#existential #existentialism #life #metaphor #life

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#william-shakespeare #art

Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up.
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— Jarod Kintz

#invisible #lecture #performance-art #silence #silent

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? ↗

— Voltaire

#volume #art

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#art

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butchering #cows #craft #meat #art

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods