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"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
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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 think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
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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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"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
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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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"What force is more potent than love?"
Love
"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
Music
"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."
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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
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"The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending."
Music
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
Work
"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
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"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
Love
"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
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"The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do."
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