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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile Zola
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. Jackson Pollock
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. Ludwig van Beethoven
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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it. Aretha Franklin
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. James Taylor
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John Lennon
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. Louis Nizer
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Pablo Picasso
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Don Miguel Ruiz
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When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means. Charles R. Swindoll
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I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that. RM
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. Dave Grohl
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Auguste Rodin
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy
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