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• Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

  Giacomo Puccini

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Men

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• If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

  Mia Michaels

  Dance, Body, Choreographers

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• That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

  Edward Gordon Craig

  Writing, Mean, Design

  Edward Gordon Craig (2008). “On the Art of the Theatre”, p.41, Routledge

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• Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2011

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Discovery, Self, Expression

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Classical ballet will never die.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Ballet, Classic

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• Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

  Georges Seurat

  Character, Drawing, Vision

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• The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

  Hilma af Klint

  Change, Work, Power

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Struggle, Color, People

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• Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.

  Lewis Baltz

  Meaningful, Photography, Work

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• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  Betye Saar

  Memories, Future, Past

  Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press

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• I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dream, Fun

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• I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Long, Looks

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• Music is the universal language.

  Swizz Beatz

  Music, Hip Hop, African American

  "10 questions for 'Far East Movement'". Rap-Up Interview, www.rap-up.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities- bathing, eating, etc.

  Janine Antoni

  Hate, People, Everyday

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• I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

  Storm Thorgerson

  Photography, Real, Drawing

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• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

  Cy Twombly

  Inspirational, Time, Cutting

  "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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• My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

  George Grosz

  Mean, Imperfect World, Drawing

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• Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Practice, Design, Effort

  Robert Edmond Jones, Delbert Unruh (1992). “Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones”, Amadeus Press

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• My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

  Louis Riel

  Sleep, Years, People

  "The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters". Book by Max Wyman, p. 85, 2004.

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• Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Believe, Ideas, Creating

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• There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

  Kara Walker

  Education, Doctors, World

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• Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Learning, Genius, Talent

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• Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Creativity, Night, Thinking

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

  Frank Herbert

  Candid, Concealing, Appearing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.142, Penguin

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