"An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do."
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"The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live."
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"The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke."
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"The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist."
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"I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist."
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"Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference."
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"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."
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"I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more."
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"Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer."
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"The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation."
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"For man is by nature an artist."
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"I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it."
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"Conscience is a man's compass."
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"We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers."
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"Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist."
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"I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons."
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"She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you."
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"I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives."
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"One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all."
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"Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe."
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