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Art begins with resistance—at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ↗

— André Gide

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All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections." (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions). ↗

— Brother Lawrence

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Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity... ↗

— John Keats

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Life is a gift that must be given back, and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short, and that's a fact. Hard to accept, this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme, a battle won. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions. This split in public values produced or was accompanied by, as it was bound to be, an equally artificial and ugly division in people's lives, so that a man, while pursuing Heaven with the sublime appetite he thought of as his soul, could turn his heart against his neighbors and his hands against the world... Though Heaven is certainly more important than the earth if all they say about it is true, it is still morally incidental to it and dependent on it, and I can only imagine it and desire it in terms of what I know of the earth. (pg. 23, "A Native Hill") ↗

— Wendell Berry

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Art is a harmony parallel with nature ↗

— Paul Cézanne

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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend. ↗

— Julia Cameron

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