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“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.”

— Belinda Taylor

“emotions are not amoral—they vocalize the inner working of our souls and are as tainted as any other portion of our personality.”

— Dan Allender

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And…

— T S Eliot

“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist…

— Rachel Field

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

“You are an original masterpiece; imitating someone else diminishes your value.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

— Fujiwara no Teika

“A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for…

— Anonymous

“Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked…

— Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of…

— Jeremy Aldana