brilliance

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

There__ no logical connection between being smart and having money.

In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

If you build a wall to separate people, there will be those who find a way around the wall, or over it, or under it, or through it. We humans are not meant to be contained, and neither are our thoughts.

I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads.

In times of trouble, people need artists. We create those spaces where their own pain and worry and sadness can rest, and where their broken hearts can hope again.

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

Our art is never really ours. Each person who experiences it brings to it a piece of themselves and reacts to it in ways that stem from their personal struggles, beliefs, morals, and even hang-ups.

As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.

As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent.

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

Just one caress became a symphony of passion, insatiable longing, an unquenchable desire to possess.... Gasps... The sparkling touch, embrace make hard to breathe... A mere short burst of brilliance, explosive need...forbidden sweet... Beneath the warmth of a dancing rainbow summer sunset, slowly tuning into the magic night with the stars flooding the sapphire skies...the sacred emerald island wildlife listens to our song, played with loving fingertips, reflected in diving deep into each other's ocean eyes...

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.