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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#fighting #jeet-kune-do #martial-arts #art

If you know the why, you can live any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#understanding #art

Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#screw #sticking-place #courage

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#make #reality #unbearable #without #world

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got. ↗

— Sabrina Ward Harrison

#people #truth #art

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#art-criticism #modern-art #women #art

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#believers #metaphor #myth #organized-religion #religion

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it. ↗

— John Paul II

#talent #art

To truly hate is an art one learns with time. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#art

A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness. ↗

— Emily Rodda

#courage