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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing
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    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
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    Bob Ross
    “We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
    ― Bob Ross
    tags: art, inspirational
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing
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    Lester Bangs
    “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
    ― Lester Bangs
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    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    tags: art, artists
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  • #9
    “And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
    ― Lady Gaga
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: art, comfort, life
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    Banksy
    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    ― Banksy
    tags: art, truth
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    Ansel Adams
    “You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Imagination governs the world.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: art, imagination
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    Danny Kaye
    “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
    ― Danny Kaye
    tags: adventure, art, life
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    Ansel Adams
    “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, confidence, emotion, expression, freedom, perception, self-expression
    601 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Stella Adler
    “life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
    ― Stella Adler
    tags: affirmation, art, creativity
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    Woody Allen
    “The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
    ― Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script
    tags: art, artist, despair, emptiness, hope, meaning-of-life, purpose, purpose-in-life
    496 likes

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    Steve Martin
    “I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
    ― steve martin
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    Pablo Picasso
    “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, lies, truth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: art
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    Banksy
    “Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
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    Claude Monet
    “Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
    ― Claude Monet
    tags: art, genius, obsession, passion
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Stephen King
    “Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
    Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
    ― Stephen King, Misery
    tags: art, hurts, memory, misery, novels, persistence, remember, requirements, scars, stephen-king, stories, talent, writers
    495 likes

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  • #26
    “All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: art, humour, interpretation
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    Freddie Mercury
    “Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.”
    ― Freddie Mercury
    tags: art, art-criticism, modern-art, women
    285 likes

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    Edward Hopper
    “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
    ― Edward Hopper
    tags: inadequacy-of-words
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    Freddie Mercury
    “I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
    ― Freddie Mercury
    tags: art, entertainment, music, performance, prostitution
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  • #30
    D.W. Winnicott
    “Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
    ― Donald Woods Winnicott
    tags: art, artists, communication, desire, hiding
    369 likes



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