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“I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until my mid twenties. From all I had heard from other people, art was just something you do as a hobby in between your real work and real jobs.”

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Author:Julie Dillon

“Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.”

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Author:Seth

“If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.”

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Author:Seymour Chwast

“If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.”

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Author:Shepard Fairey

“I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.”

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Author:Olafur Eliasson

“Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation.”

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Author:Jim Woodring

“A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I'm like, I created art.”

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Author:Jhene Aiko

“Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote.”

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Author:Billy Zane

“I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.”

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Author:Robert Redford

“The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.”

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Author:Gillo Dorfles

“I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it had opened up a gaping hole in my psyche. In the process of creating art, I might be trying to fill that hole, or to reduce its depth, or to make it feel less hollow. I think that making art could have helped from that moment on.”

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Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.”

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Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.”

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Author:John Stossel

“The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it's trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.”

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Author:John Daido Loori

“Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.”

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Author:John Michael Montgomery

“I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.”

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Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.”

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Book:On the Museum's Ruins

Source: On the Museum's Ruins

“DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.”

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Author:TyDi

“Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep personal growth. This program [Animal sanctuary] will deploy ISF's youth development program, U Factor. The program helps youth identify their passion, cultivate their talent, amplify their purpose, and connect the younger generation to diminishing species and biodiversity.”

“Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether it's by creating video games, computer art or sharing exciting Web sites.”

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Author:Seymour Papert

“Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders.”

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Author:Philip Kotler

“Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.”

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Author:Justine Larbalestier

“Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. Everything great that has come into my life has been through channeling and manifestation of a vision or dream. Pure passion equals love.”

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Author:Matt Sorum

“The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.”

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Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.”

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Author:Ronnie Apteker

“Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.”

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Author:Leo Errera

“Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.”

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Author:Tim Fargo

“My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So there was a continuum of my interest in the arts and involvement in creating that was strong enough that it later blossomed into much more.”

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Author:Paul Smith

“The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you.”

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Author:Watkin Tudor Jones

“Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.”

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Author:Matt Sorum

“I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.”

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Author:Vince Staples

“It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.”

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Author:Tom Riley

“Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions.”

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Author:Jerry Pinkney

“The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.”

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Author:Jerry Pinkney

“I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.”

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Author:Vik Muniz

“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.”

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Author:Jeff Koons

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

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Author:Marianne Moore

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

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Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10

“Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.”

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Author:Kanye West