"If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow."

Art, Writing, Creativity, Discipline, Idea

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"If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow."

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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."

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

Claude Monet, French Artist

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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

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"No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations."

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"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."

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"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."

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"The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring."

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"A journey is time suspended."

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"A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination."

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"It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly."

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"Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember."

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"Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware."

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