"The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
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"A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything."
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"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
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"You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself."
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"The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success."
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"The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist."
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"The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision."
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"The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity."
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"Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies."
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"Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality."
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"No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is."
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"No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite."
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"An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy."
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"The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set."
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"Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture."
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"Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense."
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"I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to answer or not. I've always been the kind of artist that wanted to focus so much more on the music than all these other things. For example, "what does it feel like to be a female in a male dominated industry"?"
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"In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation."
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"The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine."
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"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."
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