"All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe."
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"I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work."
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"I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt."
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"I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art."
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"I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it."
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"I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created."
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"I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk."
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"I think the idea of art kills creativity."
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"We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist."
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"I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny."
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"I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef."
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"We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not."
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"Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots."
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"I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics."
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"For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself."
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"I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people."
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"My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say."
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"I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds."
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"My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest."
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"At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm."
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