12 quotes
“It is like a beautiful disease that affects me very strongly”
— Cy Twombly
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
— Abraham Lincoln
“I have felt the wind of the wing of madness”
— Charles Baudelaire
“The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved”
— Jack Kerouac
“Live to the point of tears.”
— Albert Camus
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
— Jane Austen
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
— Robert Frost
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensity”
— Alberto Giacometti
“I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.”
— Jack London
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long”
— Lao Tzu
“I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot”
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
— Walter Pater
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