In order to lead a fascinating life
In order to lead a fascinating life – one brimming with art, music, intrigue and romance – you must surround yourself with precisely those things.
Tag: Art
Earth without art
The “Earth” without “art” is just “eh”.
Create something
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. – Andy Warhol
Diego Rivera Quotes
Let’s celebrate together Diego Riviera’s birthday, trying to share best Diego Riviera Quotes.
“If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.”
“Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman’s body and of female sexuality.” (talking of his wife Frida Kahlo)
“Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.”
“Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did.”
“I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”
Isaac Newton Quotes
Isaac Newton was the best physician of all time. Let me share with you some wonderful Isaac Newton Quotes.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Life Quotes
In Europe, now it is morning. It’s 9 AM. I dare you to start this perfect day with some great life quotes.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E. B. White
“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“I love life because what more is there.” – Anthony Hopkins
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” – John Burroughs
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
“Only a few things are really important.” – Marie Dressler
“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life-you just hang around until you get used to it.” – Charles M. Schulz
“May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” – H. L. Mencken
“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” – William Lyon Phelps
“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.” – Karen Horney
10 Beauty Quotes
Let me share with you 10 Beauty Quotes to make your day better. Please comment and tell me you’re favorite beauty quote from this list (or from your own list). Thanks!
1. “The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.” – Ashley Smith
2. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” – Mark Overby
3. “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” – Oscar Wilde
4. “It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.” – Oscar Wilde
5. “It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” – Ivan Panin
6. “Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “Pretty is something you’re born with. But beautiful, that’s an equal opportunity adjective.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
8. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it” – Confucius
9. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller
10. “It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before” – Jane Austen
Bonus: “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” – Kahlil Gibran
Great Inspiring Quotes
Let me inspire your day. Let me make it better and happier. Let me share with you some great inspiring quotes! :)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ~ Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. ~ William Hazlitt
Death is more universal than life; Everyone dies but not everyone lives. ~ A. Sachs
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. ~ David O. McKay
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life. ~ John Homer Miller
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one yourself. -James Anthony Froude
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. -Horace Bushnell
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. – William James
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art Quote
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso
Paul Cezanne Quotes
Today we share Paul Cezanne Quotes, celebrating him in our own way :)
A puny body weakens the soul.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
I allow no one to touch me.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
I have sworn to die painting.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.