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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Lionel Trilling
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Andre Maurois
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
Kurt Cobain
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I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.
Kanye West
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