Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”


Frida Kahlo

by Remedios Varo

The Great Nanjing Massacre by Zi Jian Li

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” - Claude Monet

Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825), The Death of Socrates

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“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” 

Michelangelo

antitacta:

Philippe de Champaigne, Still-Life with a Skull, 1st half of 17th century.

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“the way to create art is to burn and destroy 
ordinary concepts and to substitute them 
with new truths that run down from the top of the head 
and out of the heart.”

Charles Bukowski

Vladimir Lenin in Smolny by Isaac Brodskiy

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

Pablo Picasso

“I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio

“ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Galileo Galilei