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Most people exist, that is all. --Oscar Wilde Komposition (1939), Otto Freundlich (German, 1878-1943) br3nt.com br3nt.com Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. --George Orwell Komposition (Rund- und Ovalformen) (Ca. 1930), Adolf Hölzel (German, 1853 ­ 1934) br3nt.com br3nt.com Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. --Jean-Paul Sartre Composition (1946), Ole Kandelin (Finnish, 1920-1947) br3nt.com br3nt.com Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. --Willliam Wordsworth Komposition in Blau (1931), Otto Freundlich (German, 1878-1943) br3nt.com br3nt.com The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. --George Orwell Komposition (1938), Otto Freundlich (German, 1878-1943) br3nt.com br3nt.com If you can do no good, at least do no harm. --Kurt Vonnegut Fleurs, Texte Et Vingt-Six Planches En Couleurs Pl 05 (1929), Serge Gladky (French, 1880­1930) br3nt.com br3nt.com The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation (1945), Anonymous br3nt.com br3nt.com The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. --Kalu Ndukwe Kalu Zersetzung I (around 1928), Karl Wiener (Austrian, 1901-1949) br3nt.com br3nt.com An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. 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Optisk illusjon. (1930), Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863 - 1944) br3nt.com br3nt.com Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. --Franz Kafka Late Evening Looking Out of the Woods (1937), Paul Klee (German, 1879 - 1940) br3nt.com br3nt.com We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. --Rumi Manège de cochons (1922), Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941) br3nt.com br3nt.com Wisdom begins in wonder --Socrates Sky Study with Rainbow (1827), John Constable (English, 1776-1837) br3nt.com br3nt.com Find the place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. --Joseph Campbell Rooftops and Fantasy (1918), Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935) br3nt.com br3nt.com Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness. --Christian Dior Several Circles (1926), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 - 1944) br3nt.com br3nt.com The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is. --Eckhart Tolle Zwei Strichmännchen (1918), Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918) br3nt.com br3nt.com What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. --Leo Tolstoy Stillleben (1917), Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941) br3nt.com br3nt.com The trick is to care about everyone while not caring what they think. --Tim Ferriss Untitled (1938), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895 - 1946) br3nt.com br3nt.com The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it. There is nothing more pure than that. --Rupi Kaur Summer, Dune in Zeeland (1910), Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872 - 1944) br3nt.com br3nt.com I am not what happened to me. 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