#real

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#art #creative #play #realization #sake

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#dogs #failed #find #inspire #kind

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#surreal #dreams

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#i #i can #misunderstood #really #sometimes

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#artist #biggest #biggest obstacle #certainly #chance

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something. ↗

— Julie Benz

#before #hard #i #know #life

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#also #collections #did #good #had

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#change #characters #different #different kinds #especially

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#finish #happened #how #i #important

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#because #being #failure #had #i