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1219 Artist Quotes

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Considered Does Even Feel
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

Different Enjoy Even Explore
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Been Book Day Got
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

Art Becomes Easier Lives
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Born Descendant Emperor Family
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

Beatles Broken Complex Could
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Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.
Deny Many People Remember
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Brag Computer Fast Favourite
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

Could Day Deadlines Hours
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

Been Body Cells Difficult
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

Always Awe Living Someone
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You can be very wild and still be very wise.
Still Very Wild Wise
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Brought He His Hope
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Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Artists Clothes Definitely Musicians
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

Am Extremely I Am Rebellious
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

Accept Because Cannot Dance
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Book Careful Full Get
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

Arrive Based Book City
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Acceptable Ballet Cultural Dirt
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Age Art Artists Course
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

Add Always Am Anything
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

Alive Daily Daily Life Different
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

Between Big Big Difference Business
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Always Artwork Back Believed
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I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.

Always Created Instrument Myself
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I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.
Always Even Had Must
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

Always Been Changes Feeling
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

Actually Always Because Better
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

Entertain Entertained Just Love
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Child Remain Grow Artist
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Truth Realize Enable Art
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Wash Life Soul Away
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Seen Have Could Other
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Die Off Tomorrow Left
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Child Soldier General Monk
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

Spot Sun Art Transform
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Learn Artist Break Rule
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It takes a very long time to become young.

Long Young Time Become
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Order Always Which May
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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Urge Creative Destroy Also
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Copy Good Artist Bad
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Exist Find Work Working
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Wild Horse Paint Wildness
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Diary Way Keep Paint
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Abstract Start Trace Reality
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Gift Purpose Life Give
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The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

World Paint Sense Picture
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Artist Another God Only
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Paint Child Took Lifetime
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Pull Brain Eye Only
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