"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."
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"The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer."
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"This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature."
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"Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts."
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"Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER."
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"Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture."
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"I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo."
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"You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely."
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"But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?"
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"When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express."
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"It takes nothing to encourage an artist."
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"I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist."
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"I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24."
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"Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket."
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"People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist."
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"I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community."
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"The artist must know how far to go too far."
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"I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that."
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"I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did something great. I think it's a mistake to consider the movie director as if they were great artists."
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"It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse."
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