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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .”

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

“I think it's important to remember that an artist could be at the center of healing our problems because, every day, that's what we do. Every day, our job is to make something that wasn't there before. We're kind of built to go into situations that need a kind of fresh thought to solve them so I'm happy about that and I would encourage anyone with any problem in the world that needs to be solved to consider having any person in the creative arts be at the core of its solution. I think that's one of our unused or untapped values.”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”