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what you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations

what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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  1. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  2. The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own. – David Brooks
  3. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  4. Relationships should have some limitations, because without limitations one cannot maintain his respect and love. – Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
  5. The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it. – Dada Bhagwan
  6. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  7. The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  8. Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  9. The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself. – Henry Rollins
  10. That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. You may have Limitations, but don’t let the Limitations Limit you! – RVM
  14. Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere. – Bryant McGill
  15. The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations…PEOPLE invented limitations! – Jennifer ONeill
  16. When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  17. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  18. An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. – Ayn Rand
  19. A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. – Anthony Burgess
  20. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  21. Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-”flesh and bone-”only to be spewed out again in our own works. – Siri Hustvedt
  22. Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. – Marty Rubin
  23. I feel his body pressed against mine. His heat burns against my flesh; searing, seducing. Permanently making it his. – AR Von
  24. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  25. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  26. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  27. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That’s what it is to be human, I’m afraid. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  28. Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. The mind reels. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  30. Don’t forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  31. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  32. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  34. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  35. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  36. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  37. We didn’t belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  38. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  39. Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  40. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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