If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Jack Kerouac

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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Marcel Duchamp

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Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Raymond Chandler

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Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Rembrandt

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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

Pablo Casals

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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Marcel Duchamp

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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

Donald Ervin Knuth

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