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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
Art

"Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let the Energy reach me, the Energy that is natural, reach me. Worthiness, or unworthiness, is something that is pronounced upon you by you. You are the only one that can deem yourself worthy or unworthy. You are the only one who can love yourself into a state of allowing, or hate yourself in a state of disallowing. There is not something wrong with you, nor is there something wrong with one who is not loving you. You are all just, in the moment, practicing the art of not allowing, or the art of resisting"

Art Hate Self Esteem
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Charlie Parker Musician, Composer
Art

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Men Art Music
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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist
Art

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

People Art Ordinary
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Art

"The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it."

Art Art Is
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Art

"All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir."

Years Art Gratitude
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Carol P. Christ Scholar
Art

"In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making."

Art Europe Discovery
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David Lee Roth Musician
Art

"If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?"

Art Glasses Tea
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Amy Lee Musician
Art

"Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people."

Art School Growing Up
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Andrei Tarkovsky Film Director, Screenwriter
Art

"The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act."

Art Ideas Creative
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