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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

 

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My life didn't please me, so I created my life. ~Coco Chanel

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs. ~Pablo Picasso

 

 

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ~Charles Mingus

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ~Jean-Luc Godard

 

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You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. ~Charlie Parker

 

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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. ~Marcel Proust

 

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. ~Richard Bach

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ~James McNeil Whistler

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Art is literacy of the heart. ~Elliot Eisner

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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ~Saul Bellow

 

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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. ~Bill Moyers

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Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.~ Jon Bon Jovi

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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. ~Mason Cooley

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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ~William Plomer

 

 

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What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.~ Rainer Maria Rilke

 

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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre. Every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. ~Maggie Smith

 

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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them. ~ Leo Tolstoy

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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. Those who have the gift of creative expression in unusually large measure disclose the meaning of the individuality of others to those others. In participating in the work of art, they become artists in their activity. They learn to know and honor individuality in whatever form it appears. The fountains of creative activity are discovered and released. The free individuality which is the source of art is also the final source of creative development in time. ~John Dewey

 

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Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. ~Donatella Versace