"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
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"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did."
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"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art"
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"A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints."
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"It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is."
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"To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved."
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"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."
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"An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God."
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"No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."
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"To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement."
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"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
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"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
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"I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s."
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"The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life."
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"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly"
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"I always wonder what drives us as Artists."
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"I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically."
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"A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example."
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