"I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us."
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"I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in."
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"Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works."
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"The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?"
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"Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them."
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"The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation."
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"Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist."
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"In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable."
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"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
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"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."
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"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."
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"Artists are fiery; they do not weep."
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"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."
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"Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves."
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"The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself."
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"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
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"We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy."
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"An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed."
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"I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important."
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"It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself."
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