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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul."

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Michelangelo Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
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"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
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"Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart"

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Charlie Chaplin Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
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"Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors."

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