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I'm a born-again atheist.

—Gore Vidal

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I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

—Unknown

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

—George Bernard Shaw

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

—G. K. Chesterton

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

—Frank Zappa

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

—Eugene Delacroix

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

—Elizabeth Bowen

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

—Edith Wharton

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

—Edith Wharton

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

—E. M. Forster

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

—Duke Ellington

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

—David Cronenberg

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