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Art is the overflow of emotion into action. ↗

— Brian Raif

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What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? ↗

— Robert Hughes

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She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things. ↗

— Diana Athill

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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ↗

— Machado de Assis

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She has given me a way out. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health. ↗

— Sandra A. Cusack

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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

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You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life ↗

— Woody Allen

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One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. ↗

— Edward Swift

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