#nat

To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible. ↗

— Garth Stein

#determination #art

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.' ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#asked #because #busy #filming #films

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in. ↗

— Josef Albers

#artists #biography #josef-albers #natasha-wing #art

É ela [a natureza], igualmente, que leva o homem a matar seu semelhante, a devorá-lo, a sequestrá-lo, a torturá-lo; pois, tão logo saímos da ordem das necessidades e das precisões, para entrar na do luxo e dos prazeres, vemos que a natureza não pode aconselhar senão o crime. (...) É a filosofia (refiro-me à boa), é a religião que manda que alimentemos parentes pobres e enfermos. (...) O mal faz-se sem esforço, naturalmente, e por fatalidade; o bem é sempre o produto de uma arte. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#natureza #art

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#corcitura #courage #determination #fighting-spirit #love

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don’t let me hear a word about the rest ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#politics #nature

Uno de los primeros recursos propios del escritor profesional que Isabella había aprendido de mí era el arte y la práctica de procrastinar. Todo veterano del oficio sabe que cualquier ocupación, desde afilar el lápiz hasta catalogar musarañas, tiene prioridad al acto de sentarse a la mesa y exprimir el cerebro. Isabella había absorbido por ósmosis esta lección fundamental y al llegar a casa, en vez de encontrarla en su escritorio, la sorprendí en la cocina afinando los últimos toques a una cena que olía y lucía como si su elaboración hubiera sido cuestión de varias horas. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#procrastinacion #procrastination #art

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#identity #individual #nation #art

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died ↗

— Donato DiCristino

#donato #heaven-and-hell #hollywood #limbo-bimbo #magical-prowess

Your mind is a canvas, your experiences are the paint colors and your actions are the brushes that show the art in you. ↗

— Louise Philippe Dulay

#artist #artistry #canvas #inspire #life