The Courage to Become Replete With Knowledge
“They can come in and guts it out. They like to shoot from the hip, I don’t. I don’t believe that’s where the great risks are. Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. A lot of people are taking those risks on the basis of something so unconsidered that it’s completely capricious.”
and
“I didn’t want it to be true because I wanted to go where everyone else was going, lets not cut the corners, lets cut down the building. But sometimes you cut down a building and there’s lots of people in that building, lots of babies and the bathtub’s filled with baby blood. So it’s not right. In other words the growth of an artist, the maturation just gets cut off. They’re famous for what they were famous for when they were found to be famous.”
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“The amount of financial and imaginative energy that’s put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.”
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