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"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?"
Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you hear a voice within you say 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh

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Journal Entry: Wed Aug 22, 2012, 3:37 AM
We have art so that we may not perish by the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

For me, painting is a way to forget life.  
Georges Rouault

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.  
Albert Camus

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.  
Odilon Redon

The question of common sense is always what is it good for? - A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.  
James Russell Lowell

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work.  Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it.  That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.  
Jean Cocteau

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.  
Leonard Bernstein

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.  
George Bernard Shaw

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connelly

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.  
G.K. Chesterton

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Cyril Connolly

What quotes do you carry about with you, or pin up on your pinboard because they have moved your soul, inspired you, given you that joyous Aha, of "Yessss ... that's what it's about!"?

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:iconbloodmoonequinox:
Mood: Joy ~BloodMoonEquinox 1 hour ago  Student General Artist
Both your altered book collages and your digital collages are amazing! :love: I can't wait to see more!
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:iconjmgpg:
Stunnunig gallery, as your imagination and talent. Congratulations!
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:iconthelaughingboy:
Mood: Love ~TheLaughingBoy May 14, 2013  New member  Traditional Artist
Wonderful Gallery!
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:iconhogret:
Thank you!
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:iconrustymermaid:
I don,t often get to check out your gallery but today I did!
awesome works my friend :huggle:
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:iconhogret:
Thank you so much!
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:iconrustymermaid:
Most welcome
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:iconpurelygrace:
~PurelyGrace May 7, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Do you have a tumblr? Love your work :D
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:iconhogret:
Nope. dA is my homebase!
Thanks for the compliment.
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:iconthe-sinking-spell:
*the-sinking-spell Apr 5, 2013  New member  General Artist
Oh, how I love your work. It's at once subtle and resonate. Such beautiful ideas and imaginings. I'm so very glad you've made it available to the world.

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