"I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back."
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"The conclusion does not belong to the artist."
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"It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself."
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"The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority."
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"The eye altering, alters all."
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"The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it."
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"I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys."
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"Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
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"The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness."
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"I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want."
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"The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them."
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"A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes."
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"It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare."
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"It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character."
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"Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman."
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"An entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. An artist is on a journey: they don't know where they're going, what is going to happen, but they know they are not there yet, and there is some continuity and growth. I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter."
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"To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor."
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"You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people."
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"I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did."
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