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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1852

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1928

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

—Frank Zappa, c. 1975

The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.

—Lester Bangs, 1971
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