#arts

Honest hearts produce honest actions. ↗

— Brigham Young

#hearts #honest #produce

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. ↗

— Richard Wright

#copied #hearts #men #prisons #realities

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. ↗

— F. E. Smith

#glittering #hearts #offer #prizes #sharp

I've been with Mr. Locke for several hundred years now." He tossed her a wink. "I should hope in that time he would share with me his undead state. Had he not, I would have been rather perplexed as I celebrated 100 years of age and still looked 45. ↗

— Jennifer Turner

#age

Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth. ↗

— Byrd Gibbens

#trickster #art

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist! ↗

— Veronika Carnaby

#literature #music #veronika-carnaby #art

Architectural romance: "Romance is not something that fits". An example; parts that are unlike those not exactly true, but also a car that just fits in the garage. ↗

— Leopold van de Ven

#car #example #fit #fitting-in #parts

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#martial-arts #philosophy #politics #art

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#fighting #jeet-kune-do #martial-arts #art

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#inspirational #music #art