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If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.
Deborah Solomon
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Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
Deborah Solomon
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When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.
Deborah Solomon
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Art never lies, I believe.
Deborah Solomon
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The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
Deborah Solomon
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You have to be willing to recognize failure.
Deborah Solomon
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If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.
Deborah Solomon
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When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.
Deborah Solomon