Artist Quotes - Page 29

• How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

  Maya Lin

  Children, Home, Scary

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• I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Would Be

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• I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

  Maya Lin

  School, Thinking, Withdrawal

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• It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

  Maya Lin

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Realizing

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Dad, School

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• My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

  Maya Lin

  Father, Firsts, Sides

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

  Maya Lin

  Fog, Groups, Anarchist

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• You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

  Maya Lin

  Thinking, Lost, Should

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

  Maya Lin

  War, Memorial, Vietnam

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• I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

  Maya Lin

  War, Memorial, Scary

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

  Bai Ling

  Roles, Stones, Feels

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• Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  Christian Louboutin

  People, Technique, Done

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• I cannot exist as a solo artist.

  Courtney Love

  Artistic, Solo

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• I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

  Courtney Love

  Competition, Bob, Dylan

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• The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Technology, Stories

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• I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

  John Lydon

  Mirrors, Rooms, Dressings

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

  David Lynch

  Strong, Real, Creativity

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• An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

  David Lynch

  Way, Bugs, Painting

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

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• The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

  David Lynch

  Crazy, Should Have, Ideas

  "David Lynch Interviews – Uncut". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

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• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  People, Connections, May

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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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