John Dave Santos

“I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
― David Lynch

“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Art begins with abstract decoration, with
purely imaginative and pleasurable work dealing with what is
unreal and non-existent. This is the first stage. Then Life
becomes fascinated with this new wonder, and asks to be
admitted into the charmed circle.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying