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Pat Oliphant

"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

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Donna Grant

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

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Donna Grant

"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

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Donna Grant

"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."

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Donna Grant

"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"

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Pat Oliphant
"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."

Art

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Pat Oliphant
"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."

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Pat Oliphant
"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."

Artist

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Pat Oliphant
"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."

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Pat Oliphant
"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."

Journalism

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Pat Oliphant
"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."

Money

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Pat Oliphant
"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."

State

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Pat Oliphant
"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."

Nixon

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Pat Oliphant
"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"

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Pat Oliphant
"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."

Constitution

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