Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
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