"You stand your ground and you perform..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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“That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.”
“It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.”
“Anger is my biggest enemy in life.”
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“No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.”
“For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.”
“Art needs no spur beyond itself.”
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“There was never any more inception than there is now,Nor any more youth or age than there is now;And will never be any more perfection than there is now,Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
“Necessity does everything well.”