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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, self-mastery
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    Aristotle
    “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: art, philosophy
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: ambition, art, artist, eyes, love, master, work
    164 likes

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    Erich Fromm
    “Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
    Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
    Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
    Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
    tags: art, immaturity, love, maturity, need
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: art, clear, create, creativity, design, fashion-designer, icon, moment, right, stifle, time, wisdom, wrong
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    Anatole France
    “In art as in love, instinct is enough. ”
    ― Anatole France
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    René Magritte
    “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....”
    ― Rene Magritte
    tags: art, philosophy
    132 likes

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    Anthony Kiedis
    “Every true artist is at war with the world.”
    ― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
    tags: art, artist, war
    116 likes

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  • #11
    Jean Cocteau
    “Art is science made clear.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: art
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  • #12
    Robert Henri
    “Do whatever you do intensely.”
    ― Robert Henri
    tags: art
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #14
    Sappho
    “There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”
    ― Sappho
    tags: art, grief, muse
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
    tags: art, creativity, crime, critic, criticism, detectives, mystery
    237 likes

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    Jennifer Elisabeth
    “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
    ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
    tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, crazy, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, hope, insanity, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish
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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but
    when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is
    wrong.”
    ― R. Buckminster Fuller
    tags: art
    232 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: art
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    Chaim Potok
    “Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.”
    ― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
    tags: art
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”
    ― Michelangelo
    tags: art
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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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    Gustave Flaubert
    “You don’t make art out of good intentions.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: art, artists, creativity, writers, writing
    202 likes

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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: art
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    Marcel Duchamp
    “I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art, artists
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: art, artist, artistic, artists, artsy, creative-people, creativity, eccentric, eccentricity, eccentrics, funny, gadfly, humor, humour, odd, odd-humor, odd-people
    146 likes

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    Wassily Kandinsky
    “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
    ― Wassily Kandinsky , Concerning the Spiritual in Art
    tags: abstraction, art, paintings, science
    140 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art
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    Criss Jami
    “I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: art, artist, connection, humanity, inspirational, life, lyrics, music, musician, poetry, song-lyrics, songs, songwriting, truth, world
    96 likes

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    André Breton
    “Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
    ― Andre Breton, Nadja
    tags: art, beauty
    132 likes

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  • #30
    MaryAnn F. Kohl
    “Art is a process, not a product.”
    ― maryann kohl
    tags: art, creavity, early-childhood, education
    51 likes



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