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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That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
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The best way to live is to live like there is no tomorrow.
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The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.
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Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
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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.