"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."

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Source : Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

Max Nordau

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“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.”
“If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.”

Source : Susan Howe (1993). “The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History”, p.47, Wesleyan University Press
“I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.”
“The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.”
“If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.”
“I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.”

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“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions
“The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.”

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