Quotes about Quotes
“Maybe our favourite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” -John Green
(via the-face-of-broe)
“It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.”
― Terry PratchettWhat a dude.
"People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
"I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
Emily Carr (via artmastered)
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was."
Jackson Pollock (via artmastered)
"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."
Mark Rothko (via artmastered)
"Please don’t let me stop thinking and start blindly frightenedly accepting! I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love."
Sylvia Plath, Journals of (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
(via upahill)
"The most passionate person whom I have known is in fact the most chaste."
Defend the Muslim Community - Lowkey
(made for lifeisliterallylimited by nabzilla)
Applicable to every demographic or any other characteristic
(via sailtheskyblue)
"We journalists are probably too bleary-eyed after a sleepless night to understand the full significance of what has just happened in Brussels. What is clear is that after a long, hard and rancorous negotiation, at about 5am this morning the European Union split in a fundamental way."
In an effort to stabilise the euro zone, France, Germany and 21 other countries have decided to draft their own treaty to impose more central control over national budgets. Britain and three others have decided to stay out. But whether the agreement does anything to stabilise the euro is moot. (via theeconomist)
(via theeconomist)
(Source: crmerry)
