"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"You are capable of great deeds."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."

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"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."

Creativity

"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."

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"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."

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"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."

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"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."

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"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."

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"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."

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"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."

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"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

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