"Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless."
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"They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it."
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"Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists."
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"All artists are two-headed calves."
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"My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color."
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"Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist"
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"A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose."
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"It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult."
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"My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out."
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"It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists."
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"No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude."
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"The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth."
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"The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete."
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"All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world."
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"Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact."
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"Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution."
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"An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in."
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"Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)"
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"An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic."
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"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."
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