Odilon Redon Quotes
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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Small aim is a crime.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
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What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
