Artist Quotes
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
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We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
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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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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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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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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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I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.
