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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he makes a work of art." E.M. Forster
"Art happens--" James McNeill Whistler
"Listen! There never was an artistic period. There never was an Art-loving nation." James McNeill Whistler
"Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness." Sir Herbert Read
"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When you get to the point where you cheat for the sake of beauty, you are an artist." Max Jacob
"All art is based on non-conformity." Ben Shahn
"A work of art is a confession." Albert Camus
"True artists scorn nothing." Albert Camus
"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity fleeting." Goethe
"Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death." William Blake
"Art was made to disturb, science reassures." Georges Braque
"Art is either a revolutionist or a plagiarist." Paul Gauguin
"One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book." Nelson Algren
"The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs." Joyce Carol Oates
"Good, better, best, never let it rest until your good is better, until your better's best." John White (Pulitzer Prizewinning photojournalist)
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