“Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.”
Michael Madsen (1957) American actor
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“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”
as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008
2000s
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Variant: Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Compare: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T. S. Eliot, in Philip Massinger, in The Sacred Wood (1920)
Disputed
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“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 54