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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a gr

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. – Jack White

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When you put something out there into the world, theres all these words you dont want to hear, that you hope people dont say. I dont like anything that starts with re – like retro, reinvent, recreate – I hate that. Its always like living in the past – copying, emulating. – Jack White

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Hope
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Thats what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out – or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments. – Jack White

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best
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I dabbled in things like Howlin Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something Id been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. – Jack White

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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. – Charles de Lint

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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

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Art

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy. – Jennifer Garner

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Art

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

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Art

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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. – Randolph Bourne

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After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. – Grazia Deledda

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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. – Julia Cameron

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