Hesham El

“لدينا جميعا حلمات تذوق على ألسنتنا، وهذه الحلمات تميز المذاق الملحي والسكري والمر، فلو تلفت هذه الحلمات أو ولدنا من دونها فلسوف يتساوى كل شيء، ولسوف يكون مذاق القهوة شبيها بمذاق الكرنب أو الآيس كريم.. لا شك في أن أرواحنا تملك حلمات مماثلة يمكنها تذوق السعادة.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, مثل إيكاروس

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road