“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
Charles Bukowski
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose”
Harper lee
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
“ Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.“
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Aristotle
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
“Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Pablo Picasso
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“ Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. “
“ It takes a long time to become young. “
“ It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Victor Hugo
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
