Artist Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

  Henri Nouwen

  Broken, People, Community

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• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

  Novalis

  Art, Meaning Of Life

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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  Gary Numan

  Writing, Thinking, California

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• Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Talent, Given, God Given Talents

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• The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Enemy, Reviewers, Scientism

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• I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, People

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• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Fun, Interesting

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• I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, People, Important

  CNN's Book Chat, www.cnn.com.

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• People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Home, Cds, People

  "Oates Details Writers' Last Days in 'Wild Nights'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. April 27, 2008.

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• The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

  Conor Oberst

  Worst, Repeats, Can Do

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• I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

  Conor Oberst

  Reality, Careers, Records

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• The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

  Ben Okri

  Imagination, Secret, Tools

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  Yoko Ono

  Lonely, Want, Prophet

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• Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

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• I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

  Yoko Ono

  Style, Flow, Exciting

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• When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

  Yoko Ono

  War, Sides, Loses

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• Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

  Yoko Ono

  Fans, Lennon

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• Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

  Yoko Ono

  Clothes, Musician, Sixty

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• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Changed, Five

  "Yoko Ono: I Feel Invisible". Interview with Hannah Elliott, www.forbes.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Activist, Feels

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• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  Yoko Ono

  Block, Thinking, Trying

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