Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ― Nelson Mandela

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I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.- Dwayne Johnson

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When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to. ― Diana Rose Morcilla

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If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. ― Émile Zola

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May you always be the one / Who notices the little things / That make the light pour through / And may they always remind you/ There is more to life and there is more to you. — Morgan Harper Nichols

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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

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I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.- Mitch Hedberg

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I never dreamt of success. I worked for it. —Estée Lauder

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I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

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