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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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  Corita Kent   "Art does not come from thinking, but from responding."
  Louis Malle   "I believe the best part of your work has to be unconscious."
  Paul Gauguin   "Go on working freely and furiously and you will make progress."
  Judy Morningstar   "Seeing the art made my heart sing."
  Patricia L. Cardinal   "Little did I know that I was about to enter a world of art that would grasp every corner of my attention."
  Laura Ingalls Wilder   "If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it is pretty nearly bound to happen,   wind and weather permitting."
  Leonardo da Vinci   "The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less."
  Michael Gelb   "The best ideas come when you are relaxed and alone."
  Leonardo da Vinci   "When the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
  Sydney Lurnet   "The work involves commitment, pain, and a giving of oneself, and yet all of it is essentially a joyous   experience."
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir   "Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and happiness."
  Louise Nevelson   "Even if I didn't want to compose, I painted or stacked the pieces."
  Anna Held Audette   "The wonderful thing about working is that the more you do it, the easier it is to do, and the less likely
  it is you'll get stuck."
  Joshua Reynolds   "Reynolds "I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own   industry."
  James Michener   "I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty."
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir   "Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness."
  Kimon Nicolaides   "Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation."
  Henry Fuseli   "Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity."
  John Sloan   "Observe your work. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from
  the study of your own work, than from others."
  Seneca    "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things
  are difficult."
  Eric Maisel   "Point yourself in the direction of you work."
  Steve Nachmanovich   "Persevere gently."
  William Faulkner   "Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your   contemporaries or predecessors, try to be better than yourself."
  Thomas Moore   "The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their
  simplicity might suggest."
  Swami Sivanda   "Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
  Pablo Picasso   "God invented the giraffe, the elephant, the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying things."
  Edward Hopper   "More of me comes out when I improvise."
  Joan Snyder   "My work has always been involved in exposure. The subject matter is the paint and the paint speaks
 of human needs."
  Neil Fiore   "All large tasks are completed in a series of starts."
  Carl Jung   "Your vision becomes clear only when you can look into your own heart."
  Natalie Goldberg   "It is true that when we begin anything new, resistances fly in our face."
  Sanford Meisner   "That which hinders your task is your task."
  Froma Walsh    "If you believe it you will see it."
  Leontyne Price    "Art is the only thing you can’t push a button for. You must do it the old fashioned way.
  There are no compromises."
  Arthur Miller    "In a good production of a good play with a good cast and a knowing director there is formed a
  fraternity whose members share a sense of destiny."
  Arthur Miller    "If I can see an ending, I can work backwards."
  Connie Frey    "Focus and momentum shorten the path to the finish line."
  Neil Fiore    "All large tasks are completed in a series of starts."
  Elizabeth J. Spencer     "Art steps in where communication breaks down."
  Thomas N. Carruthers     "Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."
  Max Ehrmann     "Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans."
  Neil Fiore     "Keep on starting, and the finishing will take care of itself."
  Eric Maisel     "You must be able to create in the middle of things or else you will not create."
  Paul Virilio     "Accidents should stop being seen as something that is separate from the world and instead be
   accepted as a part of the world and hence on equal footing with perfection."
  Peter London     "An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable."
  Thomas Edison    "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
  Hui Hai    "Your treasure house is in yourself. It contains all you'll ever need."
  Buddha    "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
     

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