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"Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art"

~ Salvador Dali

"Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way."

~ Wayne Dyer

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."

~ James M. Barrie

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

~ Harry S. Truman

"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."

~ David Hume

"The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents."

"Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible."

~ Orson Welles

"In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke."

~ Soren Kierkegaard

"We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered."

~ Thomas Huxley

"Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music."

~ Pete Seeger

"You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing."

~ Donatella Versace

"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

~ Joseph Addison

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

"If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone."

~ Willie Nelson

"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent."

~ Harper Lee