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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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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

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I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top.

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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

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

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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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

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When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful.

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