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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

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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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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

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I'm just a fan of all music. My family owned a record shop so I grew up taking it all in on a daily basis. I'm not a person that needs to listen to just five good artists at one point. I love whatever is dope. We all can feel what's great.

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And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

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It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

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

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

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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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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

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Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

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