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“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”

“The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.”

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Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.”

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Author:Sophie Swetchine

“We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.”

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Author:James Dickey

“[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.”

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Author:Anthony Minghella