Artist Quotes
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I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
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The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
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The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.
