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You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

Art is forever.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.