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"Every once in a while, take the scenic route." »H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at." »Oscar Wilde
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." »Pablo Picasso
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"You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate." »Eric Pio
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"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." »Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
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"Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." »Andr Gide
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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." »Andre Gide
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"A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times." »Eric Pio
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist." »Novalis
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"An artist cannot do anything slovenly." »Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
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"Every artist was first an amateur." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization." »Jacob Getlar Smith
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"An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"The artist needs no religion beyond his work." »Elbert Hubbard
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"A great artist is always before his time or behind it." »George Moore
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"What an artist the world is losing in me" »Nero Claudius Caesar
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"No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist." »Ludwig von Beethoven
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"It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing." »Steve Jobs
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"Graphic expression is the artist's impression..." »Jerzy van Uytrecht
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"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist." »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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"When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself." »Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
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"Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist." »Rene Angelil
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"An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it." »Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
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"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." »Piet Mondrian
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"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself." »Pauline Kael
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"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." »Leo Tolstoy
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"The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life." »W. Edward Brown
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." »Max Eastman
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