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    Frank Zappa
    “Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: art, profit
    348 likes

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    Andy Warhol
    “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
    ― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol
    tags: art, fame, humor
    275 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art
    316 likes

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    Orson Welles
    “The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
    ― Orson Welles
    tags: art
    234 likes

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    Émile Zola
    “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, enterprise, talent, work
    434 likes

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  • #6
    Marcel Duchamp
    “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art, creative-process, creativity
    301 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art
    230 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: art, creation, creativity, criticism
    269 likes

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  • #9
    “Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.”
    ― Joan Erickson
    tags: art, inspiration, life, risk, serendipity
    172 likes

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  • #10
    Brian Keene
    “Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.”
    ― Brian Keene
    tags: art, inspirational, writers, writing
    103 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: art, destiny, inspirational, on-writing
    229 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, door, painting, picture, stepping-stone
    127 likes

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  • #13
    MaryAnn F. Kohl
    “Art is a process, not a product.”
    ― maryann kohl
    tags: art, creavity, early-childhood, education
    51 likes

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  • #14
    Pablo Picasso
    “The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, world
    380 likes

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    Marcel Duchamp
    “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art, artist, dadaism, surrealism
    116 likes

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    Paul Klee
    “One eye sees, the other feels.”
    ― Paul Klee
    tags: art
    1573 likes

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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
    tags: art, words
    66 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
    ― Salvador Dalí
    tags: art
    172 likes

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  • #19
    Paul Gauguin
    “I shut my eyes in order to see.”
    ― Paul Gauguin
    tags: art, creative, inspirational
    162 likes

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  • #20
    Edgar Degas
    “Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.”
    ― Edgar Degas
    40 likes

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  • #21
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    87 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, art-theory, beauty, color
    108 likes

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    Émile Zola
    “Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”
    ― Emile Zola
    69 likes

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  • #24
    Paul Klee
    “Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”
    ― Paul Klee
    tags: art
    47 likes

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  • #25
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    “A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
    ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    tags: art, imagination, originality
    109 likes

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  • #26
    James Baldwin
    “The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”
    ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
    tags: art, connection, leopold-senghor, perception
    146 likes

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  • #27
    Paul Klee
    “Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”
    ― Paul Klee
    tags: art, revelation
    78 likes

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  • #28
    Jean Cocteau
    “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    75 likes

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  • #29
    Robert Henri
    “A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.”
    ― Robert Henri
    tags: art
    25 likes

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  • #30
    Marcel Duchamp
    “Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art
    44 likes



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