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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#friends #lovers #neighbors #opposites #their

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#feels #master #never

Art is sanctioned pornography ↗

— Stewart Home

#pornography #stewart-home #art

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#authorship #truth #writing #art

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#artist #creative-act #art

O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections." (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions). ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#art

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity... ↗

— John Keats

#keats #poetry #art

Life is a gift that must be given back, and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short, and that's a fact. Hard to accept, this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme, a battle won. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#art

Art is a harmony parallel with nature ↗

— Paul Cézanne

#cubism #paintings #art

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? ↗

— Andre Dubus

#passion #art