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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep."

~Scott Adams

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

~Stella Adler

"Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some."

~Jean Anouilh

"I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them."

"Alone"

~Admiral Richard E. (Evelyn) Byrd
antarctic explorer

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

~Lord George Gordon Noel Byron
poet, playwright, & satirist (1788—1824)

"Beautiful crockery is more satisfying than delicious food."

~Chinese proverb

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

~(Kung Fu-tse) Confucius
philosopher & teacher (ca. 551—478 BCE)

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

~Edgar Degas

"Art is a house that tries to be haunted."

~Emily Dickinson
poet (1830—1886)

"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."

~Jules Feiffer

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

~Elbert Hubbard

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Ars est celare artem."
Tis art, to conceal art.

~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
(43—ca. 18 BCE)

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

~Pablo Picasso

"Painting is silent poetry."

"Moralia: How to Study Poetry"

~Plutarch
historian/biographer, essayist, & senior priest of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (ca. 45—120 CE)

"A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others."

~Leo Rosten

"All art is but imitation of nature."

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BCE—65 CE)

"Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears."

~Paul Simon

"Poetry can be a form of release. It took me a long time to begin writing poetry."

on BUS

~Meg Spencer

"Beauty, more than bitterness
Makes the heart break."

~Sara Teasdale

"Mathematics is music for the mind,
Music is mathematics for the soul."

~Unknown

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

~Paul Valery
poet & philosopher (1871—1945)

"If you really want to hurt your parents and don't have enough nerve to be homosexual, the least you can do is to go into the arts."

~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
novelist

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

~Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
poet, novelist, & playwright (1854—1900)

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