"When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature."
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"People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping."
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"When an artist becomes complacent, he dies."
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"The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong."
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"Artists are always young."
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"A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven."
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"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
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"This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible."
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"There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that."
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"The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument."
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"What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos."
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"You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness."
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"Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being."
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"What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel."
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"Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins."
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"Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer."
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"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."
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"You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them."
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"The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it."
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"When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?"
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