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He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. ↗

— Irving Stone

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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised ↗

— James Thurber

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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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Curiosity is the main energy... ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. ↗

— Benjamin Zander

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Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

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If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing ↗

— Glenn Gould

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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

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