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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Every artist was first an amateur.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: artist, skill, skills, talent, talents
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    Irving Stone
    “Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
    ― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
    tags: art, dedication, talent
    257 likes

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    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    ― Oscar Levant
    tags: genius, humor, insanity
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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
    1265 likes

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    Claude Monet
    “Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
    ― Claude Monet
    tags: art, genius, obsession, passion
    399 likes

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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ”
    ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
    tags: genius, michelangelo
    239 likes

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    “As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: artist, popstars
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: artist
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    tags: art, artist
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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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    Anthony Kiedis
    “Every true artist is at war with the world.”
    ― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
    tags: art, artist, war
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  • #14
    “It costs nothing to dream and everything not to”
    ― Rodney White
    tags: artist
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    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”
    ― Yahtzee Croshaw
    tags: art, artist, critic, flawless, truth
    70 likes

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  • #16
    “To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”
    ― Louise Bourgeois
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  • #17
    “Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt”
    ― Christian Boltanski
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    Amit Kalantri
    “The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”
    ― Amit Kalantri
    tags: art, artist, artistic, artists, arts, creative, creativity, original, originality
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    Edna Stewart
    “Writing and art are my lovers”
    ― Edna Stewart
    tags: artist, lovers-of-art, poetry-quotes
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  • #22
    Claude Monet
    “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
    ― Claude Monet
    tags: art, artist, bird, paint, sing
    201 likes

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    Steven Pressfield
    “...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”
    ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
    tags: art, artist, inspiration, writer
    20 likes

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    Tom Spanbauer
    “There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.”
    ― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters
    tags: artist, loneliness
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
    tags: aesthetics, art, artist, beauty
    79 likes

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    “Art is a passion or it is nothing”
    ― Robert Fry
    tags: art, artist, nothing, passion
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
    13074 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
    ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
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    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational
    1167 likes



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