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• Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

  Susan Sontag

  Art, People, Worry

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• The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

  Josh Billings

  Art, Writing, Knowing

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• In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

  Cecil Taylor

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

  "John Coltrane". Book by Bill Cole, 1976.

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• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Artist, Simplicity, Thinker

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• Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

  Donald Miller

  Art, Trying, Communicate

  Twitter post from Sep 21, 2015

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• Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

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• Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creative, Passionate

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.76, Penguin

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• I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Distance, Believe

  "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.

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• The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Art, History, Humanity

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• It is a great art to saunter !

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.27, Yale University Press

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• The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, Fate, Men

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• Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Perfect, Ballet

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

  Simon Schama

  Art, Reality, Order

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• What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

  Nile Rodgers

  Artist, Feel Good, Looks

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• The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

  Don Roff

  Art, Movement, Recipes

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

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• Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Spiritual, Art, Passion

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• Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Opportunity, Dining, Artistic

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

  Glenn Close

  Inspirational, Art, Acting

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

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• The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

  Louise Brooks

  Art, Soul, Faces

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• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Positive, Art, Silence

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• I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Tacos, Art Is

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• It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Art, Laughter

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Men, Artist

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