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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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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. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible. ↗

— Robert Henri

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When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears. ↗

— Tyler Shields

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Art is a passion or it is nothing ↗

— Robert Fry

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I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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