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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

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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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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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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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Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

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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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New arts destroy the old.

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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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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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I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave.

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

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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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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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Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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