"Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists."
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"I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own."
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"If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways."
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"I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even."
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"Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell."
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"Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures."
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"The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine."
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"The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science."
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"Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work."
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"An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty."
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"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."
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"This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be."
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"An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images."
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"I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself."
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"I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant."
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"Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished."
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"The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."
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"People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park."
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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
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"The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist."
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