Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on art
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Ideas come from everything.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
James JoyceJames Joyce