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"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
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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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"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."
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"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"
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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."
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"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."
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"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."
Age

"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
People

"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
Art

"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
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"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
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"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
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