"Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love."
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"All art is knowing when to stop."
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"Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances."
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"Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others."
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"I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice."
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"The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred."
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"Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people."
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"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."
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"Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist."
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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."
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"Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy."
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"At the heart of art is learning to see"
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"You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art."
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"What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else"
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"When your art fails, make better art."
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"It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters."
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"Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was at home, and couldn't care less. What you do with yourself, whether you are happy or unhappy- live or die- is strictly your business and the universe doesn't care. In fact you may be the universe and the only cause of all your troubles. But, at best, the most you can hope for is comradeship with comrades no more divine (or just as divine) as you are. So quit sniveling and face up to it- 'Thou art God!'"
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"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."
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"It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer.""
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"Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?"
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