To dream or not to dream
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
well as J.K. Rowling said on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” This is true, as ideal as it seems, living in an iconic reallity is not the answer. Things will not change on their own.
On the other hand, when reallity is hard does a little bit of dreaming hurt anyone? Langston Hughes said “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.” Also our dreams, our goals define us... no dream is immposible if we try.
Art is the same as dreaming, art depends on dreams and imagination, it creates a whole new world with its rules, itscharacters and its own life...
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Daniel Pinkwater"
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
-Pablo Picasso"
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
-Francis Bacon"
“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
-Rembrandt"
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
-Georgia O'Keeffe"
“To be an artist is to believe in life.”
-Henry Moore"
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
-Twyla Tharp'
“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”
-Rene Magritte "
“Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.”
-John Olsen"
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
-Oscar Wilde"
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
- John W. Gardner"