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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

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The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The artist of today must work with his face turned toward the dawn, steadfastly believing that his dreams will come true before the setting of the sun. ↗

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

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Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

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... I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that needed to be written, or painted, or sung, or woven, or otherwise shaped. It is art gifted by the Mystery to the maker...and then, in turn, gifted to us. ↗

— Terri Windling

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The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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The first thousand are the hardest. ↗

— Herbert Gute

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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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