Artist Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

  Yoko Ono

  People, Dignity, Telling The Truth

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• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, World

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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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• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Age, Desire

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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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• You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Struggle, Thinking, Two

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• If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.

  PSY

  Korean, Ready, Ifs

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• Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Skills, Feelings, Communicate

  "Chuck Palahniuk answers your questions about everything but his books". AV Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.

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• I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Self, Pity

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• Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Two, Revelations

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• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Memories, Men

  Andre Maurois, S. C. Roberts (2014). “Aspects of Biography”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Photography, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Get Away, Art Is

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

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• I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

  Liz Phair

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

  Golda Meir

  Art, Knowing, People

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