#ss

I want to be famous but unknown! ↗

— Edgar Degas

#artist #edgar-degas #impressionism #art

I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie said after a pause. “In art class. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#glue #hallucinations #art

كنت كلما رأيتها في لباسها الفلسطيني المليء بالمزركشات والموتيفات الحية والنوار، اعترتني رغبة في أخذ الفرشاة بجنون وتغميسها في لباسها ورسم أشكال مجنونة من ألوان فستانها ↗

— واسيني الأعرج

#happiness #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

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

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#confidence #courage #danger #fear #fearless

It's a finger snapping kind of day. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#cheerful #creating #day #happy #jamie-weise

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone. ↗

— Anna Carey

#art

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #details #intuition #nerd #nerdiness

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#letting-go #loss #art