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Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#religion #skeptic #courage

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#attempt #bring #chaos #itself #order

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#art #disaster #fiction #films #oldest

It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#artists #pills #art

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#explain #how #just #learn #never

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#life #observe #art

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. ↗

— Hakim Bey

#art #radical-theory #social-change #art

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. ↗

— Garth Stein

#creators #destiny #failures #ignorance #intention

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. ↗

— David O. McKay

#education #ethics #mentoring #art

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#chasm #expression #inspirational #vision #art