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Michael Bassey Johnson

"An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan."

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"An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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"I see my life in terms of music."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."

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"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests."

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"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."

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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."

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"Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make us happy all the time, who will respect, love and cherish us in everything, and we can't go far in the search because such personality is within us, not in the world we are living now!"
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"If you can endure anything, you can become anything."
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"Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition."
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"Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends."
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"Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief."
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"Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn't change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place in their hearts, you'll be totally forgiven and accepted."
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"Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own."
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"Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness."
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