"The artist after all is a solitary being."
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"Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint...They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems."
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"Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy."
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"Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist"
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"There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years."
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"It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing."
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"For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin."
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"I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers."
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"Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds."
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"As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person."
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"Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan."
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"I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music."
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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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"I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot."
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"When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself."
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"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
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"To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion"
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"One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it."
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"Great art can only be created out of love."
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"The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment."
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