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An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.
– Michael Bassey Johnson

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  3. In a world in which everyone cheats, it’s the honest man who passes for a charlatan. – Andr Gide
  4. Part of the artist’s job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional. – Sally Mann
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  8. Ideas doesn’t make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich. – Michael Bassey Johnson
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  11. Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man’s world. – Michael Bassey Johnson
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  14. Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  18. There’s nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish. – Michael Bassey Johnson
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  22. Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist. – Kata Mlek
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  25. Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor. – Billy Graham
  26. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.Freedom of choice is predetermined.Don’t believe anything you read! – L Anthony
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  28. Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom. – Pearl Zhu
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  37. Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe. – Amit Kalantri
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