“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
"We can only learn to love by loving."
- Iris Murdoch
Love
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
- Iris Murdoch
Awareness
"The theatre is a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit: put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good."
- Iris Murdoch
Personal Growth
"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."
- Iris Murdoch
Relationships
"Fishing seems to be the great occasion when all manner of contradictions reconcile themselves."
- Iris Murdoch
Wisdom
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity