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"A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations."
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"The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right."
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"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."
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"Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?"
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"What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence."
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"The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation. I don’t know what’s going to come out of me, I told her. It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way. Why? she said. To make up for it, I said. To make up for the fact that it’s me."
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"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
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"Everyone is a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with the colour of discovery."
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"The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material."
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"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
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"It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience."
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"I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not."
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"every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."
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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
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"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
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"The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting."
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"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."
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"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers."
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"Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness."
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"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
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