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An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. ↗

— Irving Stone

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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. ↗

— Aberjhani

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All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art. ↗

— Seth Godin

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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she as extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity. ↗

— Lewis Hyde

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Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist. ↗

— Debra Kaye

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My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

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Maybe we should stop asking how do we get people to pay for music, and start asking how do we let them pay for music? from Ted Talk ↗

— Amanda Palmer

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Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done. ↗

— Austin Kleon

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