"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
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"You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability."
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"Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light."
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"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
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"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."
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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement"
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"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."
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"The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable."
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"In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression."
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"Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night."
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"An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there."
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"The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go."
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"The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say."
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"What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences."
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"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."
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"The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance."
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"There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family."
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"The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed."
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"Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest."
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"The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush."
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