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

— Gustave Flaubert

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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 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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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ↗

— Paul Klee Foundation

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Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable). ↗

— Sariah Wilson

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What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life? ↗

— Patti Digh

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I appreciated art, long before I could produce it. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in. ↗

— Josef Albers

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Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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