#nspirational

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#philosophy #art

An idea is salvation by imagination ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#imagination #inspirational #art

The man who believes he can and the man who believes he can't; they're both right. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#attitude

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. ↗

— Don Roff

#funny #humor #inspirational #life #nature

Don't fear God, don't worry about death; what's good is easy to get, & what's terrible is easy to endure. ↗

— Epicurus

#death

...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #be-yourself #creative-process #encouragement #funny

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #create #designer #fashion #french

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#change

Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone ↗

— Fola

#inspirational #reality #dreams