"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
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"If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented."
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"When you do hard routes, you have to try hard. They're not easy routes. You have to give everything you have. You have to get totally animalistic. When you're super pumped, I have to yell to bear down. [...] It's like martial arts. When Bruce lee threw a punch, he had to mean it. Haahhh! Like that. When you're doing a hard move, there is this excess energy you have to let out. Air explodes out of you."
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"My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors."
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"To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing."
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"Art is what you can get away with."
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"How do we fight back? By creating art."
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"When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise."
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"By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible."
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"Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?"
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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"For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group."
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"To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth."
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"Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
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"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
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"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
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"Presume not that I am the thing I was."
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"The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting."
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"Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life."
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