"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing."
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"Posing is a performing art."
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"An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself."
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"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."
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"We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit."
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"Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'"
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"If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted."
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
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"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
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"You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life"
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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
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"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."
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"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
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"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore."
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"Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the artist to explain his modern art, but you don't need anybody's help to understand a flower. You can deal with anything, you can do anything if you do not waste your energy trying to achieve imaginary goals."
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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
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"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
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"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
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