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"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"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."

"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."

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

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring."

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."

"It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison."

"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone."

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success."

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."

"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."
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