“because talent alone doesn't make an artist”

“A truly great artist has many talents.”

“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true.”

“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent toartistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.”

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

“Artists work best alone. Work alone.”

“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”

“The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.”

“The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.”

“Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.”