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Artistry Quotes
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
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"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."
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"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
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"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."
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"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
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"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
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"By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please."
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"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
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"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."
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"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
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"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
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"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."
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"I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters."
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"Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man."
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"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
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"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
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