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

— Gustave Flaubert

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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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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion. ↗

— Seth Godin

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You want to know, companions of my youth, How much has changed the wild but shy young poet Forever writing last poem after last poem; You hear he’s dark as earth, barefoot, A turban round his head, a bolo at his side, His ballpen blown up to a long-barreled gun: Deeper still the struggling change inside. ↗

— Emmanuel F. Lacaba

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

— Patti Digh

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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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i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper. ↗

— Jonathan Culver

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