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"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."
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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."

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

"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."

"You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
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"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."

"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."

"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."

"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."

"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."

"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work."

"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."
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