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There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

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

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We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

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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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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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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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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.

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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

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What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

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But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

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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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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

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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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