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"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"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."
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"I cannot exist as a solo artist."
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"Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling."
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"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all."
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"But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers."
Ethics
"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
Intelligence
"But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but know in what we are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep on adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or egg collection."
Philosophy
"Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen."
Philosophy
"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
Beginning
"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."
Writing
"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
Friendship
"Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application."
Psychology
"There's never an end for the sea."
Nature
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
Persistence
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