#art

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bad #better #book #deliver #earth

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. ↗

— Alice Walker

#good #happened #intrinsic #language #part

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#creative #flowing #job #juices #make

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. ↗

— Brian Walker

#earth #elevator #i #i am #minutes

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#feels #gets #hates #heart #inside

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#form #function #human-body #humans #ornamentation

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #logic-of-heart #sense #words #beauty

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#ago #because #become #caught #doubt

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#complete #curtain #down #experience #go

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#breaches #bright #clear #does #fair