#w

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #art

You will lose what you value most... It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life. What you value most. It had been his soul. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #life

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#feelings #i #want #work

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#product #work #art

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#art #creativity #literature #music #painting

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful ↗

— William Shakespeare

#art

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing. ↗

— Michael Buckley

#art

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. ↗

— William Blake

#secrets #william-blake #art

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#madeleine-l-engle #walking-on-water #art

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#professionalism #work #art