Famous Quotes Ipsum

My first thought about art, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else, a kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. that still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing. once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. sometimes i feel like i'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst, and then i remember to relax and stop trying to hold on to it and it flows through me like rain and i can feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life. you have no idea what i'm talking about, i'm sure, but don't worry. you will someday. if the path is beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. the change of life comes when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die. it was only the first of many occasions during those months that seemed to take place out of time, or in a historical moment i had yet to identify. it is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which? when i have a terrible need of - shall i say the word? - religion, then i go out and paint the stars. watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. janis joplin taught me about passion. one can go on living when one is intoxicated by life. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes. if i had a formula for bypassing trouble, i wouldn't pass it around. wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. trouble creates a capacity to handle it. i don't say embrace trouble. that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. but i do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. the flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all. out yonder there is this huge world... which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle. but you will,' the queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'</p> there is always a little corner which remains a secret to the world - and is only known to those two. loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight. i think the loneliest thing is to be alone with another person. i'd rather be by myself than with someone who has no idea who i am. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. i glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all..