"Art never comes from happiness."

Art, Emotion, Creativity, Pain

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Play, Success, Audience, Failure

"Only sick music makes money today."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Economics, Criticism

"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Art, Creativity, Individual, Expression

"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Art, Creativity, Imagination, Storytelling

"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

Trust, Mistrust, Future, Past

"Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?"

Identity, Freedom, Choice, Self

"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."

Culture, Horror, Darkness, Hope, Romance

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

People, Problems, Want

"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."

Life, Mortality, Reality, Death

"Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia."

Health, Sleep, Rest, Confusion, Awareness

"The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery."

Social, Attention, Isolation, Death

"There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.There is no free will. There are no variables."

Philosophy, Chaos, History, Determinism, Understanding

"I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off."

Love, Sex, Investment, Impermanence

"Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them."

Love, Perception, Truth, Judgment