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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
--- Henry Miller
It is a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.
--- Haruki Murakami
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--- Benjamin Franklin
"In my dream, I see these fantastic paintings that were done by somebody else. And I wish that I had painted them. And I wake up, and after a while the impression wears off. I say, wait a minute, those are my paintings. I dreamt them; they're mine. Then I can't remember what they were."
--- David Lynch
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
--- Vincent van Gogh
I should have been, I don’t know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
--- Francis Bacon
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
--- Georges Rouault
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
--- Charles Bukowski