"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist

Art, Greatness

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"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Art, Work, Heart, Grace

"Music awaken our soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Awaken, Soul, Spirit

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

Claude Monet, French Artist

Art, Day, Joy, Obsession

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Art, Music, Winter, Nature

"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

Melody Lee, American Poet

Art, Love, Creativity, Inspirational, Passion

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

Kenneth Clark, British Author

Art, Feeling, Morals, Shadow

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

Bill Dixon, American Musician

Art, Work, People, Attention

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Art, Time, Committee, Nothing

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Art, Editing, Creativity, Skill, Improvement

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Art, Music, Talent, Skill, Perception

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"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."

Action

"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."

God

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

Health

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

Being

"Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."

Man

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."

Love

"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is."

Justice

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"Music awaken our soul."

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."

"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."

"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."

"Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."

"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is."