Best hope & art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.”

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Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.”

Trying Art Hope Justify Hopeless

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.”

World Art Hope Appearance Insight Bridges Sensations Rescue Triviality

Author:Burton Silverman

“What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?”

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Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”

“Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?”

Art Hope Nations Forget Lows Lays Graves Chiefs Thee Beloved Monarchs Majestic Scions

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!”

“While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.”

Art Sometimes Might Past Hope Loss Walks Pleasure Animal Pieces Dying Figures Design Flower Summer Spring Garden Winter Curious Variety Pleasant Statues Garments Recompense Workmanship Buoys

Author:John Worlidge

“Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”

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Author:Claude Debussy

“...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...”

“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They only wash the mud away and make way For double rainbows and sunny days”

Source: Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...”

“I write letters to you that you’ll never see.”

“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.”

“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.”

“I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.”

“You haunt my days and dreams.”

“The Fall will always be yours and mine…”

“Time' is the most threatening four letter word.”

“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.”

“That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.”

“I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?”

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.”

“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.”

“Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.”

“Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.”

Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish

“There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.”

Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish

“Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.”

“I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope and truth cannot co-exist. Truth destroys hope. The most savage cruelties man inflicts on man are committed in the pursuit of truth. My last lie had been the most honest, the most honorable of them all, for there is an art greater even than the creation of hope. The greatest art of all is the destruction of truth.”

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Book:Company of Liars

Source: Company of Liars

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“I make art when I can't gather the words to say.”

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Author:Nikki Rowe

“The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.”

Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish

“My poetry is a journey in the depth of my heart, in the abyss of my conscious, underneath this realm and transcending horizons. Is who I was, who I am and who I had become.”

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Book:The odyssey of my lost thoughts

Source: The odyssey of my lost thoughts

“I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.”

Art Inspiration Beautiful Artist Hope Courage Journey Inspire Wise Words Depth Meaningful Hopeful Stillness Free Spirit Chronic Illness Crps Art Therapy Crps Warrior Art Matters

Author:Nikki Rowe

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