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The longer you
look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
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Modern war is
becoming such that we cannot distinguish between destruction of humans and destruction
of nature.
Shoko Ahagon Farmer and Peace Activist
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Solitude
is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
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You can't depend
on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
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The best thing
about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm afraid that
if my devils leave me, my angels will take flight as well.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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What lies behind
us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There are said
to be creative pauses, pauses that are good as death, empty and dead as death
itself.
And in these awful pauses the evolutionary change takes place.
D.H.Lawrence -
Lines from the poem'Nullus'
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There is nothing
more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose,
because
before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse
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Those
who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find
that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may
act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia
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"...the neurotic
is nailed to the cross of his fiction."
Alfred Adler
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I have nothing
to say And I'm saying it And that is poetry
John Cage
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Someone once
asked me where I lived and I said, 'On the periphery'
Oscar Levant
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Talent's like
a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.
Oscar Levant
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Any attempt to
shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen
pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to
remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforseeable manner
nature will strike back.
Rene
Dubos, 1959
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I don't develope;
I am.
Pablo Picasso
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There comes a
moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!
Edgar, in Strindberg, Dance of Death.
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Better to pass
boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and
wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
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I have night's
cloak to hide me from their sight.
Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet.
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Life is given
to painful awareness. Now is the task to endure.
Rod Milgate, from Pictures At An Exhibition.
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I do feel like
a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say
'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of
the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the
status becomes more important than the actual work.
Richard Flanagan, 1996
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I would rather
have torment than annihilation. If I was in hell, I would always feel I had a
chance of escaping.
Francis Bacon
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It is only shallow
people who require years to get rid of an emotion.
A man who is master of
himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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I want a society
in which we live together but one in which we respect difference.
I want a society in which we live together but one in which we respect difference.
Akehiko Asai Taiko drum group leader.
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It is never to
late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
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Learn to be silent,
Let your Quiet mind Listen and absorb.
Learn to be silent,
Let your
Quiet mind Listen and absorb.
Pythagoras
[ 580 B.C. - 500 B.C. ]
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Gallery Owner:
' Let's have a duck for dinner.'
Artist: ' What a wonderful idea! '
Gallery Owner: ' Good, you bring the duck.'
John
Olsen
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To thine own
self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be
false to any man.
Polonius to Laertes, Hamlet, Scene I, Act III
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world
Gandhi
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There are painters who
transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who
with the help
of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo
Picasso
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A first-rate
soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham
Maslow
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is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be.
Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live
better in the future.
Wordsworth
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soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beeche
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is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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