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Andre Gide: “There is not a work of art that is without short cuts.”

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Paul Gauguin: “Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

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Frank Lloyd Wright: “An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”

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Audre Lorde: “Art is not living. It is the use of living.”

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Oscar Wilde: “No great artist ever sees things as they are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

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Vincent van Gogh: “When I have a terrible need of -- shall I say the word -- religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ”

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Albert Camus: “A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

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Helen Hayes: “We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy and sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.”

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Vincent van Gogh: “The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

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Vincent van Gogh: “A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. ”

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Georgia O'Keeffe: “Nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small it takes time -- we haven't time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

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Truman Capote: “Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”

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Alan Dean Foster: “Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.”

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Oscar Wilde: “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

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Frank Sinatra: “People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.”

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Adrienne Rich: “The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”

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Vincent van Gogh: “I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. ”

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Thomas Mann: “For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. ”

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Margaret Bourke-White: “If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.”

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Kim Basinger: “I feel there are two people inside me -- me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.”

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Rita Mae Brown: “Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”

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Joseph Campbell: “The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.”

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Richard Avedon: “There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

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William S. Burroughs: “Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”

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Jean de La Bruyere: “There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Individuality of expression is the beginning and the end of all art.”

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Denise Levertov: “I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.”

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Sir Walter Scott: “Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.”

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Elizabeth Murray: “Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.”

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Thomas Moore: “The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

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