theartgeeks

[theartgeeks]

You don’t have to explain your dreams, they belong to you. — Paulo Coelho

[theartgeeks]

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[theartgeeks]

“Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt … that I had a beehive … inside my heart. and the golden bees were making … sweet honey from my old failures”

— Antonio Machado

[theartgeeks]

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

—

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, 

Love in the Time of Cholera

[theartgeeks]

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

— Leonardo da Vinci 

[theartgeeks]

“To write is to confront one’s demons, look them in the face and live to write about them.”

— Gloria Anzaldúa 

[theartgeeks]

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

— Maya Angelou

[theartgeeks]

“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it… when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”

—

John Green

[theartgeeks]

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

— Vincent van Gogh

[theartgeeks]

“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth.”

— Jodi Picoult

[theartgeeks]

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances”

— Maya Angelou

[theartgeeks]

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— Carl Jung

[theartgeeks]

“I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.”

— Paulo Coelho

[theartgeeks]

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[theartgeeks]

“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.”

—

Henry David Thoreau

[theartgeeks]

“The arts … are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow … Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

[theartgeeks]

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

—

Oscar Wilde