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• A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Moving, Eye

  "Faith Into Action: Thoughts on Selected Topics". Book by Daisaku Ikeda, 1999.

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• I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

  Walt Dohrn

  Team, Writing, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Work, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

  Sidney Lumet

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Preparing

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

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• Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

  Eudora Welty

  Reading, Writing, Expression

  Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.

  Azar Nafisi

  Home, Imagination, Expectations

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.94, Random House

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• We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Art, Passion

  "Fictional character: Steiner". "La Dolce Vita", 1960.

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• Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Art, Reality, Views

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• There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.

  Gary Giddins

  Art, Writing, Guy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Judging, Style, Posterity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 758-59, Literary Miscellanies, Style, 1922.

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• Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

  Jan Egeland

  Agency, Years, Recognition

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Feelings, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Fun, Business, Agency

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• Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Inspirational, Wise, Courage

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• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

  Helen Keller

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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• If you can shoot well, all you need is a disposable, toy camera or a camera phone to create great work. If you're not talented, it doesn't matter if you buy a Nikon D3X or Leica; your work will still be uninspired.

  Ken Rockwell

  Phones, Cameras, Needs

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• Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

  Merlin Mann

  Doctors, Design, Creative

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• Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us lucky enough to spend our days doing something we love, something we're good at, are rich. If you do not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what you do, you fail your talent, your destiny, and your god.

  George Lois

  Heart, Destiny, Breathing

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist.  The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . .  Fear is what blocks an artist.  The fear of not being good enough.  The fear of not finishing.  The fear of failure and of success.  The fear of beginning at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Block, Finishing

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• What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

  David Robinson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

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• The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

  Jay Chiat

  Mean, Agency, Intellectual

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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