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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creative, Stealing

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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandon, Artist

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Art

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• The scariest moment is always just before you start.

  Stephen King

  Travel, Writing, Worst Moments

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Doubt, Inspirational Art

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• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Funny Friend, Drawing

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

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• Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Courage, Art

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  Dee Hock

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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  Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Hate, Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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