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  • #1
    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #2
    Edgar Degas
    “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
    Edgar Degas

  • #3
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #4
    Bob  Ross
    “We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
    Bob Ross

  • #5
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Pablo Picasso
    “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #9
    Scott Adams
    “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
    Scott Adams

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #12
    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #13
    Christopher Moore
    “If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
    Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

  • #14
    J.D. Salinger
    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
    J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #15
    Ray Bradbury
    “Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #16
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #18
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #19
    John Green
    “It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
    John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #20
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #22
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
    Terry Pratchett, Mort

  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Eric

  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #27
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #29
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #30
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre



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