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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”

“It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.”

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Author:John Sexton

“As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.”

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Author:Ron Finley

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912

“I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”

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Author:Bela Bartok

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

“I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

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Author:Igor Stravinsky

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”

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Author:Franz Liszt

“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.”

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Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.”

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Author:Auguste Rodin