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“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of
me.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
― Murakami, Haruki

“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

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

“It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone.”
― Linkin Park

“Weißt du, die Leute lügen, wenn sie sagen, nichts sei so stark wie die Liebe. Das ist eine der größten und gemeinsten Lügen überhaupt. Liebe ist nicht stark. Sie ist so verletzlich wie nur irgendwas. Und wenn wir nicht achtgeben, dann zerbricht sie wie Glas."
"Aber du liebst ihn noch immer. Sogar heute noch."
"Und, hilft mir das weiter? Macht mich das stärker?" Sie schüttelte den Kopf. "Es tut nur weh, das ist alles. Es tut furchtbar weh, jeden Tag und jede Nacht. Es ist auch nicht wahr, dass die Zeit alle Wunden heilt. Sie macht es schlimmer. Die Zeit macht es immer nur noch schlimmer.”
― Kai Meyer, Arkadien brennt

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
― Émile Zola

“Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head
and out of the heart”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
― Edward Hopper

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
― Paul Cezanne

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey