Artist Quotes - Page 23

• I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

  Arthur Erickson

  Other Cultures, Conservation, Force

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• In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Technique, Crafts

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• No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

  Arthur Erickson

  Ecosystems, Fundamentals, Aspect

  Arthur Erickson's address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

  Arthur Erickson

  Choices, Research, Regulation

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• Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

  Richard Ernst

  Believe, Feelings, Rope

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• Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

  Gloria Estefan

  People, Risk, Doe

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• All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

  Gloria Estefan

  Art, Successful, Ideas

  Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2013.

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• In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Country, Female, Sides

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• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  Paloma Faith

  Covered Up, Video, Photo Shoots

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• My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Luck, Trying, Facts

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• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, World, Fantasy

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• I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

  Craig Ferguson

  Art, Trying, New Things

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Hip Hop, Mind

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Tactics, Lines, Radio

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• With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Musical, Levels

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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  In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

  Ernst Fischer

  Change, Art, Society

  Ernst Fischer, Anna Bostock (1978). “The necessity of art: a Marxist approach”, Puffin

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• Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Inspire, Suffering

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• All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cages, Beckett, Indifferent

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• That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or she stole, and from whom? With the artist it is not how much he or she took from whom, but what the artist did with it.

  Lukas Foss

  Thieves, Doe, Analogies

  "About The Creative Process". "The Yale Review", Volume 94, Issue 3, (pp. 117-118), July 2006.

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• I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Track, Littles

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• Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

  Jamie Foxx

  Hip Hop, Hot, Doe

  "Comic-Con: Jamie Foxx Talks DJANGO UNCHAINED, His Toughest Scene to Shoot, Tarantino’s Musical Dialogue and Doing a Song for the Soundtrack". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

  Al Franken

  Art, Writing, People

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• The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Actors, Agents, Facts

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

  Lucian Freud

  Surroundings

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• I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

  Lady Gaga

  World, Way, Free Will

  Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 13, 2011.

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