#truth

You don’t want me to stand against the council. You want a magic wand, so you can walk around smacking people with it until everything’s just the way you like it. But guess what, Faythe? Life doesn’t work like that. Life bites, and the harder you fight it, the more leverage it has to tear your heart right out of your chest. And if you really want to wake this particular sleeping dog, the truth is that if you’d just taken that "damn ring" five years ago, none of this shit would ever have happened! ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#life #marc-ramos #pain #truth #life

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. ↗

— Banksy

#truth #art

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#art #lighting #truth #art

... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#friend #friends #friendship #friendship-and-love #friendship-true-and-loyal

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#truth #art

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#writing #art

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#stories #truth #art

What you see is what you see ↗

— Frank Stella

#humor #inspirational #truth #wisdom #art

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#deceit #truth #art

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty ↗

— John Ruskin

#truth #architecture