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“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be transl...”
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy the joy of being Salvador Dal and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dal going to accomplish today?”
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.”
“The journey of the sun and moon is predictable, but yours is your ultimate art.”
“In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might s...”
“An idea is salvation by imagination”
“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.”
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must...”
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
“All beautiful distractions, ignites from you.”
“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”
