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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...
View full detailsOur artwork is inspired by beautiful language that has stood the test of time, witty insights that strike a chord, poetry that stretches the imagination, and philosophy that prompts us to think deeply. The art collection includes over 100 original illustrations inspired by Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Nietzsche, Rumi, Austen, Fitzgerald and more.
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...
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View full details"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in...
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View full details"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu From The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise dating back to the 5th century B...
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View full details"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals se...
View full details"Exit, pursued by a bear." - William Shakespeare "Exit, pursued by a bear" is a stage direction from Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale" that is inf...
View full details"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves." - Leo Tolstoy Not to be outdone by his novels, Tolstoy led an e...
View full details"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for a...
View full details"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill From his classic philosophical treatise On Liberty: "He who...
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View full details"I would rather have nothing but tea. " - Jane Austen Pray, coffee drinkers, do not trifle with a connoisseur of the finer beverage, lest you fin...
View full details"Do I dare disturb the universe?" - T.S. Eliot A man is trapped in a universe as vast as his desires and as constrained as the expectations that b...
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View full details"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde From his 1892 play "Lady Windermere's Fan." In our illustration...
View full details"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson For this illustration, we used Emily Dickinson's own words as line elements to create the "th...
View full details"The woods are lovely, dark and deep" - Robert Frost Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is decept...
View full details"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendent...
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