"Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?"
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"Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice."
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"All Children are Artists"
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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
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"The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous."
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"There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do."
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"I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life."
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"The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him."
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"The art of art... is simplicity."
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"The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost."
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"It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable."
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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt."
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"The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too."
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"We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing."
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"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."
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"I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'."
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"One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad."
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"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right."
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"If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them."
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"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."
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