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• Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Lying, Creative, Selfless

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 241), 1986.

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• Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers.

  Pat Schneider

  Art, Communication, Healing

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

  James Lee Burke

  Expression, Film, Form

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• Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Frustration, Doe

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• We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Hate, Writing

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• We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of heart, whether they achieve wide recognition or not. Cultivating such a beautiful mind is a very worthy effort. Culture and art are not just decorations. They are not just accessories. What matters is whether culture enriches the essential substance of our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Art, What Matters

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• If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Islamic, Age, Mastery

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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• It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.

  Denise Levertov

  Artistic Life, Process

  "Conversations with Denise Levertov".

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• Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Research, Occupation, Systematic

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• And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Temptation, Ill

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Falling In Love, Mind, Vision

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• Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

  Andre Breton

  Imagination, Definitions, Fidelity

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• Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Men, Land

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• We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Meaningful, Drama, Creativity

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• In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Skills, Support, Growth

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• If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Anthem, Forget

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Real, Taken, Artist

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• The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Order, Political, Former

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• Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Choices, Psychology, Desire

  "4D Timelock". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Art, Digital, Painting

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• I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.

  Mark Edward

  Passion, Fighting, Artist

  "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.

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• When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

  Sia Furler

  Art, Parent, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

  Azealia Banks

  Awards, Azaleas, Excellence

  "Azealia Banks And Iggy Azalea Are Going At It Again" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2014.

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• No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

  Kim Jong Il

  Order, Discipline, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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