Elia (goldenlyre) > Elia (goldenlyre)'s Quotes

“A painting is both exactly the same and entirely different every single time you look at it.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“What is bad for the heart is good for art.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“A kingdom, or this.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“He waits for you.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Swear it.
Why me?
Because you're the reason.”
― Madeline Miller

“I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy. You can't.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I wish they would take me as I am.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Each time someone dies, a library burns.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere