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I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment. ↗

— Julian Cope

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To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write. ↗

— Richard Hugo

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To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. ↗

— Jacques-Louis David

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All artists are now free to express their own personality. ↗

— Maurice Denis

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My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. ↗

— John Updike

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I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful. ↗

— Frank Frazetta

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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

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The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. ↗

— Robin Gross

#balance #bargain #between #consumer #copyright

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!' ↗

— David Guetta

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Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea. ↗

— David Guetta

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