Awe-inspiring Art

Art & literature that wash away from the soul the dust of every day life (Picasso).

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Artwork by Nina Raasch

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“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy” ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

Artwork by Yuan Lu

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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats

Artwork by Isabelle Chapuis and Alexis Pichot

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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ― Kahlil Gibran

Artwork by Evelyn Bencicova

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“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” ― T.S. Eliot

Artwork by Coddy Cob

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“Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.” ― Kate Milford

Artwork by Gerhard Richter

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“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.” ― Carl Sagan

Artwork by Joseph Minek

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"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." — Jonathan Safran Foer

Artwork by Roos van de Kieft

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“I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Artwork by Benjamin Shine

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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” ― Mark Twain

Artwork by Noémie Goudal

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If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. — C. JoyBell C.

Artwork by Alice Solantania Saga

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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephron

Artwork by Sonia Szóstak

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“We name us and then we are lost, tamed I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness” ― Alice Notley

Artwork by Henrique Oliveira

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“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.” ― Bertolt Brecht

Artwork by Jacob a.ka. Mailbomb

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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” ― C.G. Jung

Artwork by Joanna Chudy

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“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Artwork by Ali Beletic

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“It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

Artwork by Todd Mclellan