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An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
– Ayn Rand

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  1. How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
  2. …one cannot deal with pure evil, with the naked, full-conscious evil that neither has nor seeks justification. – Ayn Rand
  3. For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. – Ayn Rand
  4. Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost. – Ayn Rand
  5. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  6. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-”and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. – Ayn Rand
  7. A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. – Ayn Rand
  8. Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  9. The source of work? Man’s mind…man’s reasoning mind. – Ayn Rand
  10. We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it. – Ayn Rand
  11. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine LEngle
  12. You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
  13. My real soul…? It’s real only when it’s independent… – Ayn Rand
  14. I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think. – Chris Colfer
  15. Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess. – Ayn Rand
  16. …there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers. – Ayn Rand
  17. He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. – Ayn Rand
  18. Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. – Ayn Rand
  19. To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. – Ayn Rand
  20. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards…in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others. – Ayn Rand
  21. …there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. – Ayn Rand
  22. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
  23. [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
  24. Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace. – John Paul Warren
  25. God’s revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are. – David Platt
  26. Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle. – Jill Badonsky
  27. People respond to gentle words than scolding – Mary Kawena Pukui
  28. Naked we were born, naked shall we return to grave. What then is the toil? – Lailah Gifty Akita
  29. Naked I came into the world and naked I will depart out of it. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  30. There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother’s womb and naked will I go into the grave. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  31. we came naked into the world and we will exit naked. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  32. When I’m with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I’m naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered. – Kamand Kojouri
  33. Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  34. We have nothing to lose in this life: We came naked into the world and we will exit naked. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  35. Give me your honest opinion. I don’t want truth with a veil on-”I like naked ladies naked. – Christina Stead
  36. Most women don’t have a problem with me being naked. As a matter of fact, most women want me naked.– Dylan McAthie – Nancee Cain
  37. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  38. Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives-”and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. – Ayn Rand
  39. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. – Ayn Rand
  40. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand

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