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\"Solveig,<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog post Number 500 for the year, so I’m good with spreading a little Quote Box love around:<\/p>\n

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. \u2013 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<\/p>\n

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? \u2013 Ludwig van Beethoven<\/p>\n

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. \u2013 Martin Luther King<\/p>\n

I can’t always reach the image in my mind… almost never, in fact… so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it. \u2014 Chuck Close<\/p>\n

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. \u2014 Johannes Brahms<\/p>\n

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. \u2014 Rita Mae Brown<\/p>\n

People who are not artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don’t have time to be inspired. \u2014 John Cage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Going upstairs now to see if I can figure out what the heck my main character needs to do to finish this tale before November first.<\/p>\n