Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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The wise are above books.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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A couple of weeks before the 1992 Houston Open, I was probably as low as I could get confidence-wise. I didn't think I was going to go any further, and then, out of nowhere, I won that week. That kind of got me going.
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I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
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Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
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Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.
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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
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I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
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I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.
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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
