Amanda Palmer Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

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  Art, Empathy, Healthy

• Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

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  Art, Should

• I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.

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  Art, Stars, Jobs

• In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

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  Art, Simple, Differences

  "The Art of Asking". Book by Amanda Palmer, blog.amandapalmer.net. November 11, 2014.

• I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

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  Art, Simple, Thinking

  "Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 30, 2008.

• There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

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  Art, Clouds, Shame

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

• I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

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  Art, Real, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

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  Art, Nice, World

• I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that allows me to empathize with other people. It's the thing that allows me to create vulnerable art. It's the thing that allows me to create other feelings and make songs that actually grab people and touch people. I feel like I've spent my life fighting that thicker skin because I don't want to become an embittered asshole.

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  Song, Art, Real

• On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

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  Art, Tears, Culture

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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