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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

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New arts destroy the old.

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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

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Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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