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“If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.”

People Ifs Want Kind Different Artist Waiting Stupid Exercise Prejudice Be Kind Hobbies Schedules Solo

Author:Chris Cornell

“Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.”

Mind Different Reason Artist Speak Prejudice Habitual Filters Cloudy

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.”

“There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.”

World Should Art Artist Careers Special Prejudice Curiosity Accepted Openness Norm

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.”

Art Artist Humanity President Leader Roles Concepts Prejudice Servant Activist President Obama Empowered Servant Leader

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.”

Art Artist Beauty Conditions Prejudice Admire Great Art Great Artist Selected

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.”

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Author:Maya Lin