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#1

“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
― Frederich Schiller

#2

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

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#3

“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

2334 likes

#4

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

2155 likes

#5

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

2119 likes

#6

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

tags: art, inspirational

2179 likes

#7

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity

947 likes

#8

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: art

902 likes

#9

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: art, artists

973 likes

#10

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy

tags: art, truth

800 likes

#11

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: art

100 likes

#12

“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
― W.H. Auden

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#13

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13094 likes

#14

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9633 likes

#15

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

7213 likes

#16

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

6803 likes

#17

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6452 likes

#18

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5986 likes

#19

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
― Marie Antoinette

231 likes

#20

“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

207 likes

#21

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: art, autism, details, intuition, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, poetry, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds

196 likes

#22

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
― Donald Woods Winnicott

tags: art, artists, communication, desire, hiding

363 likes

#23

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: art, capitalism, change, literature, power, resistance, writing

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