"An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry."
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"I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's nice to see an artist dip out and come back in every once in awhile. There's a such thing as oversaturating the market. I mean look at Britney."
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"In the recording process I do listen to other artists a lot and other albums and albums I am loving lately, or ones that I still love that came out in the 80s or 70s."
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"When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded."
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"A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian."
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"The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style."
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"What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?"
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"I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined."
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"By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit."
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"In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior."
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"All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?"
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"O, had I but followed the arts!"
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"A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career."
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"[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day."
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"As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?"
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"The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money."
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"I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist."
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"Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence."
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"I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass."
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"I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me."
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