Artist Quotes - Page 30

• Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

  Joni Mitchell

  Community, Feels, Isolated

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Herbert Read

  Military, Civilization, Achievement

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  Lance Reddick

  Stars, Rocks, Black

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Jobs, Thinking, Shoes

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• A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

  Moby

  Song, Believe, People

  "With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

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• And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

  Alfred Molina

  Reading, Successful, Thinking

  Interview With Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

  Keanu Reeves

  People, Choices, Use

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

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• As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

  Meredith Monk

  Thinking, Challenges, Quality

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• I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Integrity, Want, Actresses

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• I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Aphrodisiac, Want, Celluloid

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• If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

  Alan Moore

  Would Be, Wanted, Audience

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• Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

  Michael Moore

  Filmmaker, Thrive

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• I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Character, Costumes, Film

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• I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Sides, Scared

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

  Alanis Morissette

  Ifs, Consistently

  "Alanis Morissette: ‘Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow’". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Sisterhood, Excited

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• The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

  Norman Rockwell

  Country, Years, Great Year

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• I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

  Steven Morrissey

  Groups, Imagine, Solo

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• I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.

  Steven Morrissey

  Years, Singing, World

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• When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Thinking, Land

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

  Norman Rockwell

  Actors, Mouths, Faces

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 198), 1978.

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• In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Editing, Collaboration

  "Time, Volumes 172-173". Time Incorporated, p. 1, 2009.

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• A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

  Grandma Moses

  Artistic, Primitive, Sells

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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