"... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist."

-- Chaim Potok

#Artist Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Individual Quotes

“It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.”

Source : "West is West".
“Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.”
“My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.”
“I'm not a mass-appeal artist.”
“The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments. As in all the fables, they were made for each other.”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.6, Del Rey
“For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.”
“I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.”

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