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#1

“There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well. Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona. Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca’s words in the Inferno. Just wait and be hopeful. I was hopeful, though perhaps this was what I had wanted all along. To wait forever. ”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#2

“Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,
Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,
That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: love, passion

41 likes

#3

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: acquiescence, authority, complicity, dissent, protest, silence

1189 likes

#4

“I love those who can smile in trouble...”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: adversity, attitude, cheerfulness

878 likes

#5

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

29993 likes

#6

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

tags: art, chaos

6856 likes

#7

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

5078 likes

#8

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, inspiration, love, strength

5699 likes

#9

“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

tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science

5292 likes

#10

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting

4522 likes

#11

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, art

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#12

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

4406 likes

#13

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

tags: art, calling, life

3814 likes

#14

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art

3114 likes

#15

“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

2336 likes

#16

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

2151 likes

#17

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

2126 likes

#18

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

tags: art, inspirational

2179 likes

#19

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, love

2278 likes

#20

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

tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide

3131 likes

#21

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: art, cybernetics, science

1810 likes

#22

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams

1670 likes

#23

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, procrastination

1672 likes

#24

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

2038 likes

#25

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

tags: art

1804 likes

#26

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, confidence

1280 likes

#27

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, painting

1949 likes

#28

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
― Andre Breton, Mad Love

tags: love, meet, new, someone, yourself

76 likes

#29

“Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

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#30

“Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

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