Artist Quotes - Page 27

• Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

  Norman Rockwell

  Saws, Capture

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Men, Thinking, One Direction

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• I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

  Norman Rockwell

  Stars, Hard Times, Painting

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• You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

  ASAP Rocky

  Girl, Rip, Moon

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• I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

  Jay-Z

  Opportunity, Careers, Two

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• It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

  Pauline Kael

  Patience, Art, Waiting

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

  Nile Rodgers

  Jobs, Symphony, People

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• I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, People

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• I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Moving, Writing, Inspire

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• I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Odd

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Thinking, Citizens, Opera

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Pain, Thinking, Sensitive

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• The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

  David Mamet

  Wish, Important, Might

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Trying, Musician

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• Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

  Marilyn Manson

  Optimistic, Nihilist, I Can

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• I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

  Shirley Manson

  Thinking, Views, Different

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• I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Mean, Thinking

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• Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

  Shirley Manson

  Voice, Support, Female

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• The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

  Ben Okri

  Imagination, Secret, Tools

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  Yoko Ono

  Lonely, Want, Prophet

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• I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Motivational, Thinking, Collectors

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

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• I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Naked, Body, These Days

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

  Yoko Ono

  War, Sides, Loses

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• Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Magic

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• I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

  Chris Martin

  Song, Writing, Band

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