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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. ↗

— Spider Webb

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

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Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work. ↗

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. ↗

— Julia Cameron

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The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. ↗

— Margaret Bourke-White

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