An artist is always alone--if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
-- Henry Miller
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love
and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not
alone.
-- Orson Welles
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
-- Rumi
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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
-- Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
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It occurs to me that the only way you can have a positive effect on
people's lives through your work is by filling the loneliness -- letting
people know they're not in this thing alone.
-- Gerald McRaney
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Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have
to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.
-- John Cassavetes
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Do the thing you fear most and death of fear is certain.
-- Mark Twain
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
-- Victor Hugo
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The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.
-- Alysia Harris
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
-- Leo Tolstoy
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Wer mich nicht liebt, darf mich nicht beurteilen.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Moralische Entrüstung ist der Heiligenschein der Scheinheiligen.
-- Helmut Qualtinger
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The only people I would care to be with now are
artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is,
and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
-- Oscar Wilde
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But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
-- Daphne du Maurier
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And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?
-- Louise Bourgeois
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To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-- Louise Bourgeois
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I was quiet, but I was not blind.
-- Jane Austen
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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
-- L.P. Hartley - The Go-Between
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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
-- Sir Peter Ustinov
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Everyone has not only a story, but a scream.
-- Rachel Roberts
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Eine Kultur des Vergessens bedeutet nicht Modernisierung, sondern Barbarei.
-- Anna Mitgutsch
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Edek Rothwax: "Ruthie, column down!" ("Ruthie, reg dich runter!")
-- Lily Brett - You Gotta Have Balls (Chuzpe)