Artist Quotes - Page 34

• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  Yoko Ono

  People, Narcissist, Courses

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• The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

  Robert Smithson

  National Parks, Nostalgia, Bliss

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

  Yoko Ono

  Aquarius, 1960s, Conventional

  "Interview: Yoko Ono". www.askmen.com.

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• We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

  Yoko Ono

  People, Dignity, Telling The Truth

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• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, World

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• Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Mines

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• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Treated, Stills

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Faster, Explosives

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  Yoko Ono

  Rocks, People, Avant Garde

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• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Age, Desire

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• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  Donny Osmond

  Player, Wind, Roots

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• If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.

  PSY

  Korean, Ready, Ifs

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• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Hero, Avant Garde

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• Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Skills, Feelings, Communicate

  "Chuck Palahniuk answers your questions about everything but his books". AV Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.

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• I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Direct Effect, Elements

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Two, Revelations

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

  Cesare Pavese

  Monk, States, Bourgeois

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

  Harvey Pekar

  Mad, Cleveland, Looks

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Photography, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2010.

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• At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

  Katy Perry

  Block, Female, Labels

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• I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

  Liz Phair

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

  Wole Soyinka

  Wish, Different, Kind

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• I was more than just a moody artist.

  Rick Springfield

  Moody

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• I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Regret, Thinking, People

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