"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Music awaken our soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Awaken, Soul, Spirit

"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

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

Nora Roberts, American Author

Art, Music, Talent, Skill, Perception

"She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself.She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie."

Madison Thorne Grey, American Author

Art, Observation, Humor, Literature, Imagination

"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head."

Malcolm Mclaren, English Musician

Art, Idea, Fear, Failure

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Art, Power, Nothing, Perfection

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."

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"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."

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

"Music awaken our soul."

"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."

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

"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."

"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding."

"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."

"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."

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