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"I don't believe in breathing."
— Ellena

3 people liked it

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)

tags: love
2,091 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
975 people liked it

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

tags: books, inspirational, love, truth
912 people liked it

"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: love
1,474 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love
1,608 people liked it

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: love
818 people liked it

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
— David Byrne

tags: love
709 people liked it

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera

tags: love
620 people liked it

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity
553 people liked it

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
— Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love
589 people liked it

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
— James Baldwin

tags: love
489 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
1,985 people liked it

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
774 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
751 people liked it

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)

tags: art, philosophy, science
460 people liked it

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational
476 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
396 people liked it

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
— Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life
330 people liked it

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, poetry
329 people liked it

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
323 people liked it

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. "
— Groucho Marx

tags: art, humor
269 people liked it

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
— Edgar Degas

tags: art
196 people liked it

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

tags: art, books
182 people liked it

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: art, life, paradox
162 people liked it

"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
— Steve Martin

tags: art, humor
114 people liked it

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun"
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
99 people liked it

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
— Bob Ross

tags: art, inspirational
105 people liked it

"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."
— Flannery O'Connor (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose)

tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing
87 people liked it

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
— Alice Walker

tags: art, bad, good, writing
86 people liked it

"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams."
— Yann Martel (Self)

tags: art, citizenship, politics
82 people liked it

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
— Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing
77 people liked it

"Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
— Ani DiFranco

tags: art, life
71 people liked it

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, da, leonardo, vinci
72 people liked it

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

tags: art, haunted, house, nature
66 people liked it

""What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.""
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
46 people liked it

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. "
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art
35 people liked it

""The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.""
— Walt Whitman

tags: art
34 people liked it

"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
— Orson Welles

tags: art
27 people liked it

"An idea is salvation by imagination"
— Frank Lloyd Wright

tags: art, imagination, inspirational
27 people liked it

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…"
— Dione Lucas

tags: art, food, life
23 people liked it

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
— E.M. Forster

tags: art
20 people liked it

"Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue."
— Jeanette Winterson (Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery)

tags: art, objects
21 people liked it

"I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had."
— David Lynch

tags: art
21 people liked it

"Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls… searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor… What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece."
— Keith Floyd

tags: art, food
15 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,580 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,328 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,083 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,031 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
782 people liked it

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