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Quotes.
We enjoy including wonderful quotations throughout the site. We know that many
of you love to ponder on them further, so we're placing them all here on these pages,
and will add the new ones each month. Choose a group to read related quotes:


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  Leo Tolstoy   "The role of the artist is not to find solutions, but to compel us to love life in all its countless,
  inexhaustible manifestations."
  Madeleine L'Engle   "'Here I am, serve me.' The artist must be obedient to the work."
  Rumni   "Say yes if you are an artist. Say yes if you have known it from the beginning of time."
  Emile Zola   "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."
  Vincent Van Gogh   "I dream my painting and then I paint my dream."
  David Walker   "An artist who waits for inspiration is wasting time."
  Leon Uris   "Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal."
  Fredrico Zuccaro   "Rules serve no purpose, they can only do harm . . . not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must
  also be free."
  Ilya Ehrenberg   "Every master knows that the material teaches the artist."
  Robert Rauschenberg   "You begin with the possibilities of the material and then you see what they can do; so the artist is
  almost a by-stander while he's working."
  Eugene Delacoix   "An artist should not treat himself like an enemy."
  Stephen Leacock   "It may be that those who do most, dream most."
  Laurence Olivier   "We must never shirk the preparation in the wings, the practicing of the old self-hypnotic to transform   ourselves completely before we step onto the stage."
  Eric Maisel   "Do not fear that you are a worthless impostor: fear that by such talk you are destroying your chance
  of being an artist."
  Isaac Bashevis Singer   "Everthing is taken from one's life. You can call them emotions or thoughts. These are all names for   experiences."
  Henry James    "I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, but I have never fully done it."
  Eric Maisel     "There is no "just" from the artist's perspective - the tiniest speck is a galaxy if your eyes are
   functioning."
  Eugene Delacroix     "At a distance the oak tree seems to be of ordinary size but if I place myself beneath its branches,
  my impression changes completely."
  Eric Maisel     "An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to doscard more armor."
  Mary Bergs     "The difference between artists and other people is that artists have a sketchbook."
  Tallulah Bankhead    " Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
       
       
     

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