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"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."

"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."

"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."

"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."

"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."

"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."

"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."

"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."

"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
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"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."


"Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."


"There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single."


"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."


"I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.."


"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
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