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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.

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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

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You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

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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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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Artist Quotes , Wish Quotes

New arts destroy the old.

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I feel much more comfortable as an artist collaborating with others because I feel more mature.

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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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If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

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The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.

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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

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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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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

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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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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Artist Quotes

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

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