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Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? Picture Quote #1

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist... I am a person who does those things Picture Quote #1

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos Picture Quote #1

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother Picture Quote #1

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it’s there for a reason, and that’s to make the world a better place Picture Quote #1

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic Picture Quote #1

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Why is it every other person you meet says they’re an artist? A real artist doesn’t need to gas on about it, he doesn’t have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all Picture Quote #1

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out Picture Quote #1

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t Picture Quote #1

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist Picture Quote #1

You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn’t answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you Picture Quote #1

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past Picture Quote #1

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Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each work is the implementation of this original fault, from which comes a risky plenitude and new light Picture Quote #1

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology Picture Quote #1

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with Picture Quote #1

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever Picture Quote #1

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn’t mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you’re trying to get information that has not been written about before Picture Quote #1

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing Picture Quote #1

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The artist is a strange being. I think it’s safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy Picture Quote #1

So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn’t have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it Picture Quote #1

An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else Picture Quote #1

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard Picture Quote #1

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour Picture Quote #1

The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred Picture Quote #1

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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended Picture Quote #1

An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away Picture Quote #1

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It’s not only the artist I’m sorry for. It’s just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated Picture Quote #1

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries... While the artist’s communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modified, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture. The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and also no stronger link with the world than his work Picture Quote #1

Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself Picture Quote #1

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai Picture Quote #1

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Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? (Artist Quotes) I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist... I am a person who does those things (Artist Quotes) Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos (Artist Quotes) This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother (Artist Quotes) And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it’s there for a reason, and that’s to make the world a better place (Artist Quotes) If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic (Artist Quotes) Why is it every other person you meet says they’re an artist? A real artist doesn’t need to gas on about it, he doesn’t have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all (Artist Quotes) The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out (Artist Quotes) The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t (Artist Quotes) ... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist (Artist Quotes) You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn’t answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you (Artist Quotes) You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past (Artist Quotes) Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each work is the implementation of this original fault, from which comes a risky plenitude and new light (Artist Quotes) What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology (Artist Quotes) The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with (Artist Quotes) Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever (Artist Quotes) To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn’t mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you’re trying to get information that has not been written about before (Artist Quotes) I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing (Artist Quotes) The artist is a strange being. I think it’s safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy (Artist Quotes) So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn’t have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it (Artist Quotes) An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else (Artist Quotes) When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard (Artist Quotes) Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour (Artist Quotes) The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred (Artist Quotes) Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended (Artist Quotes) An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away (Artist Quotes) To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It’s not only the artist I’m sorry for. It’s just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated (Artist Quotes) The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries... While the artist’s communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modified, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture. The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and also no stronger link with the world than his work (Artist Quotes) Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself (Artist Quotes) The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai (Artist Quotes)

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