Artist Quotes - Page 31

• 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 landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  Galen Rowell

  Powerful, Personality, Portraits

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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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• 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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• I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

  Edvard Munch

  Color, Saws, Quiver

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• Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

  Jerry Saltz

  May

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

  Edvard Munch

  Rooms, Intention, Should

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• Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

  Jerry Saltz

  Past, Giving, Calling

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• Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Meaningful, Children, Book

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• Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

  Jerry Saltz

  Thinking, Style, May

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• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  Nas

  New York, Attitude, War

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

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• Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

  Jerry Saltz

  Shock, Harder, Expected

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• Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

  Liam Neeson

  Men, Views, Soul

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• I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking, Guy, Age

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• Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Giants, Aesthetic

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• The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

  Jerry Saltz

  Perfect, Photographer, Andrea

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• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

  Novalis

  Art, Meaning Of Life

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• Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Style, Sound

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• Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

  Kenneth Noland

  Senior, Mentor

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• Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

  Henri Nouwen

  Air, People, Being Different

  "The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

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