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ANAIS NIN ~ QUOTE ON DREAMS

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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
Anais Nin

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ~ BEING AN ARTIST

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“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him”
Gustave Flaubert, 1857
(1821-1880)

PICASSO ~ ON PAINTING

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Pablo Picasso

DYLAN THOMAS ~ ON POETRY

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“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

Dylan Thomas

MAX ERNST ~ BEING AN ARTIST

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“When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement. ”

On the photo Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning

FREDERIC CHOPIN ~ ON SIMPLICITY

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“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art”
Frederic Chopin

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE PAST

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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ”
Virginia Woolf

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON DRAWING

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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 on Drawing

THOMAS MANN ~ ON LIFE

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“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON IMITATION

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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

Salvador Dali

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