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To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas.

To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

To me to be a solo artist means I can do so many new and exciting things and I feel very strongly that one must evolve and grow. I love being a bass player and I feel really good that I was able to spend a focused chapter defining that role, but I'm not someone that likes being in the same role forever.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the boundaries of human understanding. We must be doctors who can cure the virus of violence. We must be soldiers of peace who can do more than preach to the choir. And we must be artists who will make the world our masterpiece.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

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