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    Stella Adler
    “life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
    ― Stella Adler
    tags: affirmation, art, creativity
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    Elinor Glyn
    “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
    ― Elinor Glyn
    tags: inspiration, love, romance
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
    tags: inspiration
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  • #5
    “The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...”
    ― Christina Westover, Precipice
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    Richard Avedon
    “A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”
    ― Richard Avedon
    tags: accuracy, art, inaacuracy, perspective, photography, portraits, portraiture, truth
    196 likes

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    Andy Warhol
    “An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: art
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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    Nelson Mandela
    “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: freedom, liberty
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  • #11
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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  • #12
    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    ― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
    21583 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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  • #17
    Bob Marley
    “Who are you to judge the life I live?
    I know I'm not perfect
    -and I don't live to be-
    but before you start pointing fingers...
    make sure you hands are clean!”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: judge, life, live, perfection
    20314 likes

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  • #18
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, self-improvement
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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  • #21
    “The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.”
    ― Jonathan Antin
    tags: dating-advice, inspirational, love
    551 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: inspirational
    977 likes

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  • #23
    “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
    ― Puck Magazine
    tags: misattributed-confucius, misattributed-g-b-shaw
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  • #24
    Oliver James
    “Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for”
    ― Oliver James
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, life, self-actualization, self-expression
    612 likes

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  • #25
    Edward Hopper
    “Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
    ― Edward Hopper
    tags: art, artists, expression, vision
    68 likes

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    Jane Urquhart
    “Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.”
    ― Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter
    tags: art, mining, treasure
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    Georges Rodenbach
    “The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.”
    ― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges
    tags: art, religion, the-bells-of-bruges
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    Adriana Trigiani
    “Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.”
    ― Adriana Trigiani, Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers
    tags: art, life
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    Danny Gregory
    “Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.”
    ― Danny Gregory
    tags: art, creativity
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  • #31
    “Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”
    ― Arthur Erickson
    tags: architecture, art, science
    8 likes



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