#r

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#longing #love #reality #art

Flirting is a "controversial art form" that leaves the intended either flattered, infatuated, creeped out or getting a restraining order. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#humor #art

it's really make sense when it's does not make sense ↗

— sarajevo_sara

#life-and-living #thinking-reason #attitude

Christ! What are patterns for? ↗

— Amy Lowell

#love #war #love

So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand) Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years Or is it just pop emotion (handed down and made by hand) And if it ever was there and it left Does it mean it was never true And to exist it must elude Is that why I think these things of you? ↗

— Emily Saliers

#mystery #love

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#art

Art is either a complaint or appeasement. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art

Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they met at a party, that smile would've guaranteed him a date. The man was hot. There was no doubt. But right now, all it would get him was a solid punch in those even teeth. Audrey laughed. "Aren't you sweet? Tell me, do girls usually throw their panties at you when you do that?" He grinned wider, and she glimpsed the funny evil spark in his eyes. "Do men throw money when you do your little Southern belle? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#fate-s-edge #ilona-andrews #kaldar #southern-belle #the-edge

...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ... ↗

— John Geddes

#innocence #light #love #poetry #soul

... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #poem-poetry-poet #poetry-quotes #love