#our

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. ↗

— Aberjhani

#art-and-the-soul #creative-genius #creativity #famous-quotes-by-famous-poets #mirrors

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse? ↗

— Gary R. Ryan

#aa #art #art-work #creativity #punishment

People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money. ↗

— Christopher Bram

#art

In our national parlance, what's usually meant by the word "maverick" is someone who skirts the edge of sanity--or is so insane as to appear sane--who then does something absolutely insane and yet, after the passage of time, and especially if the maverick's creation yields a profit of any kind, is deemed less and less insane until the maverick worms his or her way into the fibers of history. Then generations grow to envy the ingenuity and courage of the maverick while glossing over the maverick's genetic kookiness. On such shoulders, a country rises. ↗

— Michael Paterniti

#mavericks #courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. ↗

— Corra Harris

#courage

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty #bias #bourgeois #capitalism #creativity

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. ↗

— Ralph Keyes

#courage #creativity #fear #risks #writers

…courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #courage

She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan. ↗

— Amanda Quick

#courage

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her? ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#feminism #if-i-were-a-man #courage