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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. ↗

— James Joyce

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You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. ↗

— Irving Stone

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But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides ’Locks self in room and draws all day.’ Even art schools won’t take a psychopath. ↗

— Natalie Standiford

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Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised ↗

— James Thurber

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Curiosity is the main energy... ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ↗