"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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"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."
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"Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever."
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"Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal."
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"The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake."
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"The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
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"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art."
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"Creativity is an act of defiance."
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"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
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"I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
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"Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."
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"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."
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"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."
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"True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’."
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"Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle."
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"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."
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"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."
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"Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done."
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"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please."
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"We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations."
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