Artist Quotes - Page 21

• I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Beauty, Thinking, People

  "Kelly Clarkson 'Thankful' Album Turns 10", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2013.

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• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  Rachel Cusk

  Book, Justice, Worry

  "Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.

  DMX

  Fans, Mets, Let Me

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• I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

  DMX

  Appreciate, Sony, Feels

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  Salvador Dali

  Love, Respect, Order

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• Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

  Claire Danes

  My Favorite, All Time, Performers

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• Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Confused

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  Taylor Dane

  Eclectic Style, Taste, Diverse

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• On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

  Robert Delaunay

  Hands, Color, Littles

  "Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics". Book by Herschel Browning Chipp, p. 318, 1968.

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• I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Fields, Dedicated

  "Junot Díaz: a life in books". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Doe, Knows

  "Junot Diaz Interview: Prize-Winning Author Talks High School, Being A Nerd". Interview with Marisa Spiegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

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• I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.

  Junot Diaz

  Needs, Stories, Reader

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• In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

  Junot Diaz

  Community, Doe, Minorities

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• How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Names, People

  "Holy the Firm".

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• A great artist is never poor.

  Isak Dinesen

  Poor, Great Artist

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• I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years, the people who are here and talking to journalists will be like, 'Oh Lady Gaga changed my life, Nicki Minaj changed my life.' They'll be saying who influenced them and it will be Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, artists like that.

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, Mtv, Talking

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• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  Beth Ditto

  Oregon, Perfect, Feminist

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

  Snoop Dogg

  Tv Shows, America, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

  Snoop Dogg

  Thinking, Idols, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

  John Donne

  Art, Men, Passionate

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• My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

  Drake

  Green, Als, Emotion

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• The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Unique, Men, Individuality

  Pierre Cabanne, Marcel Duchamp (1971). “Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp”, Studio

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• At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

  David Duchovny

  People, Needs, Unfortunate

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• My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

  Lena Dunham

  Parent, Tunes, World

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. June 15, 2012.

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• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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