Artist Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

  Golda Meir

  Storm, Bouquets, Trimming

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• I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

  Michelangelo

  Evil, Heaven, Sin

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• Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

  Michelangelo

  Skins, Easy, Carving

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• Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

  Michelangelo

  Males, Divine, Ifs

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• The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

  Michelangelo

  Hands, Sculpture, Shells

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• The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Hands, White

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• The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

  Henry Miller

  Horizon, Literature, Sin

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.168, New Directions Publishing

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• Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

  Marisa Miller

  Song, Rocks, House

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• My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

  Mike Mills

  Real, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

  Nicki Minaj

  Japan, Careers, Australia

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