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“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
“Art is pain. And so is life.”
“No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24”
“Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.”
“When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.”
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,”
“The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.”
“I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I...”
“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...”
“Van Gogh couldn't have painted the stars in your eyes.”
“Handling a woman is an art that no one masters.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself...”
“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”
“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies”
“Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-”
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....”
“I remember growing up, saying youre an artist it sounds pretentious but now its one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. ”
“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
