#rug

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion. ↗

— Georges Rodenbach

#religion #the-bells-of-bruges #art

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#copperfield #debt #dickens #frugality #income

We all have paid the cost of our success. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#struggle #success #money

Money is my drug of choice--and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton in Redneck P.I.) ↗

— Trish Jackson

#drugs #money #money

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first. ↗

— Kyo Shirodaira

#struggles #motivational

Look, lady, I’m not going to bullshit you. I need to smoke enough crack cocaine to communicate with aliens. Give me all the money you got! ↗

— Ismael Galvan

#drugs #communication

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#respect

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#artist #emotion #eye #inspiration #painting

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!! ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#artist #life #life-of-artist #starving-artist #struggling-artist

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#america #drugs #society