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When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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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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But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

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I feel much more comfortable as an artist collaborating with others because I feel more mature.

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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

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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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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

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I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

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Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging...I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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