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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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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

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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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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

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An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

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As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

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You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

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Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

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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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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

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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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Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

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

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