The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Signals For Discipline
Short, high-impact ideas from creators, thinkers, and builders worth revisiting daily.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Vincent van Gogh
Art
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Art
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
Art
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Art
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
Art
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare
Art
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Art
Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner
Art
Magic is just problem‑solving in disguise.
Zach King
Art
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
Art
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
Art
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Giuseppe Verdi
Art
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
Art
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
Art
Simplicity is the final achievement.
Frédéric Chopin
Art
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.