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Artist Quotes by Anais Nin
- Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
- The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
- The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection…
- But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and…
- A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
- There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the…
- For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the…
- The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know:…
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- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
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