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"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."

"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."
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"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."

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

"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"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."

"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."

"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."

"Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties."

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