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We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”

Nick Cave

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVE

Artistic Labor Process
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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Breathing Challenges Musical
I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
NICK CAVE

Art Beautiful Inspire
The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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Calendars Office Writing
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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Christianity Communist Jesus
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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Comedy Moments Reaching
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
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Heart Looks Muse Poet
I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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Country Grew Influence
I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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Heart Holes Soul
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
NICK CAVE

Art Changed Rocks Thinking
Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
NICK CAVE

Anything Inspiration Office People
I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
NICK CAVE

Important Perspective Writing

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