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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is over

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. – Andre Gide

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

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Courage
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide

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alone
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! – Andre Gide

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Change
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A man and his art are like a fool and his king. – Terri Guillemets

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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. – Walter Hagen

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. – Lindsay Anderson

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