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The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives
A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs: by easy methods
The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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