"I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity."
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"I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything."
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"In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to."
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"An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation"
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"Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever."
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"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
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"It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it"
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
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"The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work."
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"As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness."
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"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."
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"The artist is the antenna of the race."
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"The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex."
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"There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on."
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"Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession."
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"An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind."
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"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest."
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