"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."

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Source : "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.

Georges Rouault

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“I had a band called the Sound Of Love and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape and that was that.”
“Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.”
“With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.”
“It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop.”

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“Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.”
“Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.”
“I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.”
“My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One”

Source : "A History of Philosophy". Book by Frederick Charles Copleston, Volume 1: "Greece and Rome From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus", 1953.

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