The best Quotes from Graffiti Moon

Dreaming's the only way to get anywhere.

For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.

I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.

It's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them cry.

Every time he looked at me I felt like I'd touched my tongue to the tip of a battery. In art class I'd watch him lean back and listen and I was nothing but zing and tingle. After a while, the tingle turned to electricity, and when he asked me out my whole body amped to a level where technically I should have been dead. I had nothing in common with a sheddy like him, but a girl doesn't think straight when she's that close to electrocution.

I guess love's kind of like a marshmallow in a microwave on high. After it explodes it's still a marshmallow. but, you know, now it's a complicated marshmallow.

I like the idea of her bottles. Memories that are nothing but a strange shape floating inside of you, memories that are nothing but empty bottles. And the good stuff, glassed in so it can’t float away.

I guess there are a lot of people who don't know the right thing to say. You don't notice them so much because they pretend they do.

It's a different kind of missing. You're trying to remember, and he's trying to forget.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears!

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.