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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

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There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

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The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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