"Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living."
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"Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn."
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
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"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."
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"The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body."
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"By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon."
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
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"Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite."
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"Competition is the death of art."
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"Art starts alone - and convinces society later."
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"Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity."
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"Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm."
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"The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead."
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"All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis."
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"Every drop in the ocean counts."
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"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
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"No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published."
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"Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
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"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move."
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"There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity."
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