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Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt ↗

— Christian Boltanski

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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. ↗

— James Baldwin

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While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing—ex nihilo sui et subiecti, as the Latin puts it—and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs to the Almighty alone. The craftsman, by contrast, uses something that already exists, to which he gives form and meaning. ↗

— John Paul II

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Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers... ↗

— Kelly Bingham

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You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past. ↗

— John Logan

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You know it's ART, when the check clears. ↗

— Andy Warhol

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We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward. ↗

— Jessica Lave

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