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"We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When somebody is 19 years old, they're gonna do what they're gonna do just like we did... For me the most important thing was for him to know anytime he can call and I'll come whatever happens."
"It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal."
"In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently."
"Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening."
"A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere."
"Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life."
"Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited."
"When you go to war, both sides lose totally."
"you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough."
"Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?"
"People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?"
"Life with another person is always difficult."
"Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes."
"We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians."
"I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting."
"Many incredible artists die before they were famous."
"I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being."
"I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much."
"What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true."
"Women artists are still treated differently from men."
