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The best things in life aren't things. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#art

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#creativity #existentialism #humor #psychosis #art

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#individual #poetry #tradition #art

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #art

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Consider everything an experiment. ↗

— Corita Kent

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The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Artists are those who can evade the verbose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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