"Keep to yourself the final touches of your art."
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"It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you."
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"An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries."
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"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
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"Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic."
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"I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by."
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"That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance."
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"I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process."
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"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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"And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames."
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"Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience."
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"The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception."
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"Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do."
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"One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master."
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"Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric."
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"Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar."
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"The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains."
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"Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent."
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"Imitation is criticism."
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"If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences."
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