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«Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.»
«I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.»
Author: Louise Nevelson (Sculptor) | About: Creativity | Keywords: artists, performing
«The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.»
«Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.»
«The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.»
«Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | Keywords: artists, borrow, lesser, steal
«The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Art | Keywords: artists, conception, contain
«My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.»
Author: Shakira (Singer) | Keywords: artists, masses, songs, The Masses
«Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.»
«People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.»

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