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For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
