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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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• When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

  Paul Budnitz

  Ownership, Process, Great Things

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• I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very
  depressed.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.

  Raymond Chandler

  Jobs, Writing, Perfect

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.244, Vintage

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• Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Men, Expression, Sticks

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Writing, Gestures

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• Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Intention

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• I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

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• My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

  Ralph Lauren

  Jobs, Father, Artist

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• China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.

  Richard MacDonald

  Determination, Art, Struggle

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• I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

  Richard MacDonald

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