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• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• A man's mother is his misfortune, his wife is his fault.
• The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plane can discuss horticulture.
  -- Jean Cocteau...
• Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day.
  -- D. H. Lawrence...
• It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
  -- David Hockney...
• The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• Many a man owes his success to his first wife. And his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backu
• The child had his mother's eyes, his mother's nose, and his mother's mouth.
  Which leaves his mother with a pretty blank expression. -- Robert Benchley...