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"Even a true artist does not always produce art."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear."
"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
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"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."
"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."
"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."
"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."
"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"
"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."
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