The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
The big talent is persistence.
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