E. E. Cummings on artist
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.”
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Tomorrow is our permanent address.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody loses all the time.
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Art is the sound of a human dying to be an immortal artist.
Ananya BhaskarAnanya Bhaskar Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
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Lil TjayLil Tjay I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
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Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen Compared to a lot of artists, I’m usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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