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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.


Michel de Montaigne
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Randy Newman
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
Louise Penny
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin
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The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
Martin Filler
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.


Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller
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England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.
Mario Testino
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Balthus
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.
Paul Rand
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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.


Joey Lauren Adams
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I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
Ben Affleck
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.


Robertson Davies
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I like the Bulls, the Bears - Chicago.


Ron Funches
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.


Khalil Gibran
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.


Andre Gide
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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.


Gordon W. Allport
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By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.


Jan Hus
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