Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are often plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release.

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"Some of the most unhappy artists, in the most difficult of situations, can create awe inspiring works of art."

- Eric Gibbons

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"If museums and galleries could only show what everyone liked, they would be empty."

- Eric Gibbons

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"To be an artist at twenty is to be twenty: to still be an artist at fifty is to be an artist."

- Eric Gibbons

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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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