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"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."
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"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."

"Life begins at the edge of your fears."

"Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear."

"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."

"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."

"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint."

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."

"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."

"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."

"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."

"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
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