Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it. Mary Stewart
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable...
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Unknown
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
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Danny Kaye
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect...
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Criss Jami
Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
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Jason Mraz
More Quotes By Mary Stewart
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.
Used every man according to his capacity.
At breakfast! ' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.
Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.
