Quotes by Artists - Page 25

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
Brian Andreas
At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.
Christine Mason Miller
Some of you say, 'Joy is greater thar sorrow,' and others say, 'Nay, sorrow is the greater.'But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran
It wasn’t a normal joy, it was a bitter joy, but somehow the bitterness made the joy even more wonderful.
Therese May
Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Kahlil Gibran
In your winter you deny your spring,
Kahlil Gibran
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen I'd meet someone and have sexit was Fine and easynothing to doBUT Think with my bodylike a birdI Thought I was FreeTrAcey Emin
Tracey Emin
Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but for whom I don't know. My whole body craves to be held. I am desperate to love and be loved. I want my mind to float into another's. I want to be set free from despair by the love I feel for another. I want to be physically part of someone else. I want to be joined. I want to be open and free to explore every part of them, as though I were exploring myself.
Tracey Emin
After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.
Andy Warhol
There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.
Jess C. Scott
They seemed to be together as one, somewhere else in a place that was lighter than air.
Jess C. Scott
Having random sex the way Tania did sounded kinda...hollow. I didn’t want to live in a Hollowland.
Jess C. Scott
I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.
Salvador Dalí
Oh Christ, I just wanted you to fuck me. And then I became greedy, I wanted you to love me.
Tracey Emin
I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.
Sebastian Horsley
Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.
Jess C. Scott
Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be a virgin. Her intent had been to present herself as such when she found "Mr. Right.
Jess C. Scott
I never said I liked coffee better than sex. I said I'd had it more.
Kevin Sinnott
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Andy Warhol
Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
Andy Warhol
Ponder the affirmative.
Loretta Boyer McClellan
Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.
Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur
A great sense of humor is a great gift!
Diamante Lavendar
When you realize that emotions aren't truth and they are simply reactions to life circumstances, they can no longer hold you captive.
Diamante Lavendar
To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right!
Diamante Lavendar
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
Zeena Schreck
Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.
Eric Samuel Timm
You don't have to do this," Ronan said."There isn't anything else, man.""There's reality."Kavinsky laughed the word. "Reality! Reality's what other people dream for you.""Reality's where other people are," Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. "What's here, K? Nothing! No one!""Jus
Maggie Stiefvater
The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.
Sol Luckman
In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.
Sol Luckman
Reality is seeing that the peace in a picture is a dream.
Lee Wen
I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.
Nuno Roque
Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.
Renee Gladman
Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.
Zeena Schreck
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M.C. Escher
Reality's what other people dream for you.
Maggie Stiefvater
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…
Jess C. Scott
Hate was the other side of love, wasn’t it? That’s what passion was like with her—to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We traveled to heaven and hell together. Earth wasn’t in the picture, and that was a problem.
Jess C. Scott
All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.
Jess C. Scott
May this night come wearing drunk cloak of love, carrying passionate desires, and intoxication of love! Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that I do not see any dreams!
Suman Pokhrel
When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
Kahlil Gibran
Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey
Maggie Stiefvater
Do what you love, and the money will come. And if it doesn't, you won't care, because you'll be happy.
Danielle Krysa
Lightning rod to ignite people's passion for software development
John Nava
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.And since you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
Kahlil Gibran
How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
Jonathan Harnisch
Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.
Sue Bender
Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.
Kahlil Gibran
Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage.
Maggie Stiefvater
The message of love or beauty or hope needs to be said by a hundred thousand different voices, written by a hundred thousand different pens, at a hundred thousand different times in history, different places in the world, different sectors of society, in different genres and registers, simply to be heard by the billions of ears and hearts that lie waiting for a truth which fires their soul, answers their question, speaks to their heart.
Lucy H. Pearce
When we have the courage to claim space for ourselves. When we risk creativity. When we relish our sensuality. When we honor our lives and their experiences as valuable. When we create from a female body, expressing ourselves in a woman’s voice, using a woman’s language. We begin to bloom.
Lucy H. Pearce
Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow
Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.
Christian Baloga
God invites us to start and continue each day with Him. I have found it wise to accept His request.
Eric Samuel Timm
You say good-bye, and you think you'll be free. But I'll be awaiting you, in your final destiny.
Haidji
The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…
Andy Warhol