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Many people who want to be creative, or who want to express their creative side, will often say that they try to do art because it gets them away from the rest of life. They want to learn the techniques and be able to use their creativity to express themselves. Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living by trying out different things and experimenting with different ideas, and then trying these things out.
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