You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.
Paul Cézanne
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
I gave you wings
But it was you who made me fly
I gave you space
But it was you who set me free
I gave you my support
But it was you who brushed me up when I most needed it
I give you several reasons to be happy
But it is who puts a smile on my face
I give you strength
But it is you pushes me further
I give you love
But it is you who changes my world
I keep listening to my dreams
But it is you who makes impossible things happen.
Filipa Moreira da Cruz
Photos : Filipa Moreira da Cruz
Na terra em que o mar não bate, não bate o meu coração.
Caetano Veloso
Eu, você, nós dois aqui neste terraço à beira-mar. O sol já vai caindo e o seu olhar, parece acompanhar a cor do mar.
Tom Jobim
Ela mora no mar, ela brinca na areia. No balanço das ondas, a paz ela semeia.
Marisa Monte
O mundo é grande e cabe nesta janela sobre o mar. O mar é grande e cabe na cama e no colchão de amar. O amor é grande e cabe no breve espaço de beijar.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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Perdi-me nos teus olhos
Azuis como o oceano
Intensamente límpidos
O divino toca o profano
Fui apanhada de surpresa
Pela tempestade
Que chegou com pressa
De contar toda a verdade
Engolida pelo mar
Varrida pelo vento
Sufoquei
Fiquei sem ar
Caí na armadilha do tempo.
Filipa Moreira da Cruz
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Art is not a thing, it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
Edward Albee
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Auguste Rodin
Água de nevão dá muito pão
E água do mar o que terá para dar?
Desgaste na madeira, buracos nas redes
A água (também) faz desabar as paredes
E quando teimamos em insistir no que não dura?
Água mole, em pedra dura, tanto dá até que a fura
Façamos barulho, mostremos o que nos revolta
A água silenciosa é a mais perigosa
Água que corre é vida
Água parada: água estragada
Deixa de pensar nos outros caminhos
Águas passadas não moem moinhos
Não te preocupes se tropeçares num degrau
Fica tudo em águas de bacalhau
No dia seguinte, tudo pode acontecer
Porque presunção e água benta: cada qual toma a que quer
Em terra de cego quem tem olho é rei
Mas nunca digas desta água não beberei.
Filipa Moreira da Cruz
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand
Be an opener of doors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
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Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
Pablo Picasso
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Bob Ross
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
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