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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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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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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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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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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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I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

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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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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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For man is by nature an artist.

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

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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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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

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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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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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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

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There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

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