"Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished."
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"If your life changes, we can change the world, too."
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"The cynicism that you have is not your real soul."
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"I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication."
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"I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting."
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"At least I had that, one guy understood me."
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"The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well."
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"The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways."
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"Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity."
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"Hurry ruins saints as well as artists."
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"Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous."
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"It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!"
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"I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse."
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"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."
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"The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable."
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"Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life."
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"One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness."
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"When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish."
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"All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life."
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"Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)"
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