#val

Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, “I don’t think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point.” “What’s a singed head for the sake of art?” I teased. He laughed. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#yelena #art

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? ↗

— Voltaire

#volume #art

Art is always criticized and always an outsider takes the blame ↗

— Ville Hermanni Valo

#ville-valo #art

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#controversy #value #writing #art

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #creativity #human-activity #instincts #reproduction

A gentleman doesn't have to flex to know that he is strong. ↗

— Shay Dawkins

#art

The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#martial-arts #size #survival #art

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#equivalent #good #good deed #good picture #picture

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspiration #survival #courage

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#chivalry #conversations #stimulation #art