If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

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

Scott Adams

Creativity, mistakes, art

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Khalil Gibran

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

ART

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso