"The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn."
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"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."
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"The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one."
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"Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it."
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"A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling."
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"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."
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"Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca."
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"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."
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"I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic."
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"Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'"
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"The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication."
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"It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature."
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"I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing."
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"An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos."
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"There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony."
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"Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment."
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"The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist"
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"I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live From Daryl's House, we really get inside their music which gives me an even broader idea of the writing process. I think I'm always learning from everything in life. There are really songs everywhere."
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"The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified."
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