"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born. The artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."
~ Auguste Rodin
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"Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power. Learn your technique thoroughly, immerse yourself in it, and then just throw it all out the window, and express what you feel.. and it will come through that you are a technician."
~ Sir William Dobell
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"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes."
~ Andrew Wyeth
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"Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core."
~ Jelaluddin Rumi
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"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
~ Marc Chagall
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