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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
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