Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
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Rainbow Rowell
It is good to 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 well done.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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Clive Barker
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
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Chuck Klosterman
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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Vincent Van Gogh
More Quotes By Frances Mayes
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun—who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
