"An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming."
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"I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks."
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"The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray."
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"Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief."
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"In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea."
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"Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?"
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"Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound."
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"In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching."
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"The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind."
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"Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I."
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"The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself."
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"I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things."
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"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."
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"perhaps the only magician we have is the artist."
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"For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself."
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"The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard."
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"It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas."
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"How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene."
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"The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting."
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"As artists, we like night more than day sometimes."
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