"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."

Art, Artists, Ego

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat."

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"There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time."

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"When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment."

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"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play."

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"I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play."

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"I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says."