A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy.

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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

- Edgar Degas

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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

- Edgar Degas

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"Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do."

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"Drawing is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality."

- Edgar Degas

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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