Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

~ Julia Cameron

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I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it.

~ Madlib

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Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it.

~ Suzy Kassem

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art is a mode of stalking

~ Ron Silliman

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Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Any person whom seeks to live a historical existence must devote their efforts to learning about the world, care about people and nature, and seek to express their thoughts in the artistic methodology most appropriate to their particular talent. A person cannot fake self-awareness or imitate an artistic nature. A person must honestly earn a heightened level of conscious awareness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Creating art is paradoxical because an artist seeks to express truth by penetrating and destroying illusions. Art is always the outpouring of a mind striving to achieve the impossible reconciliation of all the fragmented shards that make people human: frivolous amusements, idle moments, feelings of tenderness and pain, stored memories, future expectations, and unquenchable thirst to experience love and witness beauty.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Technology is important to Art because it connects creativity with innovation and the spirit of inventiveness. Whether we are using technology to create our art, or to share our art, it challenges artists to explore new realms of aesthetic experience and cultural relevance. But, on the other hand, Art is important to Technology for the most important reason of all. Art gives Technology its humanity. And our humanity is the driving force behind every new technology we design and every product we manufacture. We are all makers. Without creativity, we don’t make anything. If we don’t make anything, we don’t progress.

~ Kim Chestney

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The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

~ Linus Pauling

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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

~ Henri Matisse

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Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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Creativity is a work of the hand of God, and is therefore an art of Love. If we want to create something in our lives, we have to allow God’s hand to weave through our hearts, so we can carry out the work of the soul – our Divine purpose in life.

~ Frederick Espiritu

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In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

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One day a young daughter was watching her mother make a roast for the family. She watched as her mother cut off the two ends of the roast and put it in the pan, along with the potatoes and vegetables. Perplexed by the procedure, the child asked why her mother cut off both ends. The mother smiled and answered, “Because that’s the way grandma always did it.” The next time the child saw her grand- ma, she asked her why she did this. Her grandma answered that she had cut off the ends of her roasts and baked them in a small pan because the stove she had was so small.Like the girl’s mother, many of us do things a certain way be- cause that’s the way they have always been done, and we never nd out if those things are still relevant today. So let’s take a moment and think outside the box of what has been done in the past, asking God to reveal Himself to us afresh.

~ Theresa Dedmon

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But Hannah's friend didn’t understand the volatile balancing act between art and sanity, that the act of creation was like walking a tightrope during an earthquake. She didn’t understand Hannah’s stupid need for validation, or that the size of the audience increased the stakes and multiplied the fear. She didn’t understand that creativity was dangerous, that, yes, there were some people who could stand before a canvas, paint a sunset that would bring the world to its knees, and return to their loved ones as a complete person who didn’t hurt, didn’t cry, didn’t spill blood to appease the host of fickle muses. But Hannah did. Hannah’s best ideas—sometimes her only ideas—were buried beneath the skin.

~ Jake Vander-Ark

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Feedback doesn’t tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In other words, if someone says your work is gorgeous, that just tells you about *their* taste. If you put out a new product and it doesn’t sell at all, that tells you something about what your audience does and doesn’t want. When we look at praise and criticism as information about the people giving it, we tend to get really curious about the feedback, rather than dejected or defensive.

~ Tara Mohr

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People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is merit in utter failure.Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. The market for his work took off big-time shortly after his death. Had he decided to stick around another few decades he most likely would’ve entered old age quite prosperous. And sadly for failures everywhere, the cliché would have lost a lot of its power.The fact is, the old clichés work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clichés are clean and tidy.

~ Hugh Macleod

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In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

~ Erol Ozan

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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

~ Twyla Tharp

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The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

~ Criss Jami

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Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.

~ Ray Mancini

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Inspiration fans the flame of creation.

~ Ka Chinery

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A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

~ Pawan Mishra

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The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

~ Pawan Mishra

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A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

~ Pawan Mishra

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I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.

~ Sloan Wilson

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When you’re in love, you want to live forever. You want the emotion, the excitement you feel to last. Reading in Italian arouses a similar longing in me. I don’t want to die, because my death would mean the end of my discovery of the language. Because every day there will be a new word to learn. Thus true love can represent eternity.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

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