Grace Povey-West > Grace's Quotes

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”
― Keith Haring

“Children know something that most people have forgotten.”
― Keith Haring, Journals

“The public has a right to art
The public is being ignored by most contemporary artists.
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Art is for everybody.
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I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece.”
― Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals

“See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.”
― Keith Haring

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
― Malala Yousafzai

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”
― Malala Yousafzai

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
― David Lynch

“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
― David Lynch

“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”
― David Lynch

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams

“If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”
― Hayley Williams (lead sing of Paramore)

“A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real”
― Harry Styles

“A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.”
― Harry Styles

“I don't think you can define love.”
― Harry Styles

“We have a choice..To Live or To Exist.”
― Harry Styles

“I think you have to take me for me. I am who I am.”
― Harry Styles

“Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.”
― Harry Styles

“im am who i am i can't change”
― Harry Styles, Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction

“My worst habit is...getting naked all the time haha...sorry.”
― Harry Styles

“Swallow you fears, wipe off your tears, let go of you darkest years. Chin up. Smile. Walk away”
― Harry Styles