A Quote by Lyman Abbott

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Lyman Abbott

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Lyman Abbott
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December 18, 1835 - October 22, 1922

But man does not create...he discovers.

Antonio Gaudi

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

Antonio Gaudi

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Andre Malraux

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

Christian Keiber

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

Megan Hart

What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote? Those things you incorporate and create in the character, and then you step back and you create it. It always must begin with the point of truth within yourself.

John Kani

I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind.

Adam Schlesinger

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

Frank Wildhorn

Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.

Sara Genn

if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.

Katherine Mansfield

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Michelangelo

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Paul Cezanne

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

Myron Scholes

The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.

Marianne Williamson

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