Artist
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The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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