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"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."

"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do."

"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
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