"Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as â€˜beauty,â€™ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artistâ€™s experience that are the first importance in art."

-- Grant Wood

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“Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.”
“The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.”
“I get a lot of questions about hair color. People are very into talking about hair.”
“The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.”
“Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of ***** and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.”
“I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Handler, www.believermag.com. July 2003.
“Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost in the fantasy of it all. As a DJ, I'm trying to create the opportunity for this to happen.”
“If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve”

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