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  1. Tom Stoppard _ Travesties

    My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
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  2. Anthony Powell _ Books Do Furnish a Room

    Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage, a virtuoso, a good chap, a man of honour, a hard case, a spendthrift, an opportunist, a raisonneur; to be very rich, to be very poor, to possess a thousand mistresses, to win the heart of one love to whom he was ever faithful, to be on the best of terms with all men, to avenge savagely the lightest affront, to live to a hundred full of years and honour, to die young and unknown but recognized the following day as the most neglected genius of the age. Each of these ambitions had something to recommend it from one angle or another, with the possible exception of being poor - the only aim Trapnel achieved with unqualified mastery - and even being poor, as Trapnel himself asserted, gave the right to speak categorically when poverty was discussed by people like Evadne Clapham.
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  3. Gertrude Stein _ Picasso

    A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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  4. Hermann Hesse _ Gertrude

    I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.
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  5. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
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  6. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...
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  7. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.
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  8. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
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  9. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell."Page 68
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  10. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    ...she {the artist, the writer} doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
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  11. Tom Robbins _ Skinny Legs and All

    The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl."
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  12. Tom Robbins _ Skinny Legs and All

    If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does.
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