"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

Art, Labor

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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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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"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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"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."

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"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."

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