The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way. The first song I wrote was called 'Ice Cream and Wafers.' The next was 'Holding Back the Years.'

Mick Hucknall

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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Robert Frost

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A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.

Leo Tolstoy

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Leonardo da Vinci

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