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"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."
"In general, I don't feel artists should need producers."
"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light."
"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."
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