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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." - Erica Jong "You didn't make art by capturing an image on paper, or canvas, or in stone. You didn't make it by writing down stories and poems. Music and dance came closest to what real art was -- but only so long as you didn't try to record or film it. Musical notation was only so much dead ink on paper. Choreography was planning, not art. You could only make art by setting it free. Anything else was just a memory, no matter how you stored it." - Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot "There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce "Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?" - Calvin (Bill Watterson) "Art is really people asking the eternal question, 'What is it all about?'" - Gene Roddenberry "The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things -- but above all we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad -- to be willing to risk everything to really express it all." - John Cassavetes "Keep an open mind, I always say. Drives sensible people mad, I know, but what did we ever get from sensible people? Not poetry or art or music, that's for sure." - Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying |