Artist Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Doors, Typical

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• No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

  Chris Rock

  Film Critics, Madagascar, Film

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

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• I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

  Kid Rock

  Smart, Believe, People

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

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• Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Interest, Contemporary

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.26, Random House

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• They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Art, Museums

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

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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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• When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

  Norman Rockwell

  New York, Eye, Europe

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• Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

  Norman Rockwell

  Saws, Capture

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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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• I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

  Norman Rockwell

  Stars, Hard Times, Painting

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• You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

  ASAP Rocky

  Girl, Rip, Moon

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• I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.

  ASAP Rocky

  Stars, Thug, Men

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rap, Thinking, Long

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• It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

  Nile Rodgers

  Jobs, Symphony, People

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• To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Book, Eye

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Looks, Different

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• Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

  Anne Roiphe

  Art, Writing, Doe

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• Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

  Anne Roiphe

  Fighting, Thinking, Space

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, People, Appreciate

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• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  Galen Rowell

  Writing, Giving, Today

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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 always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

  Kelly Rowland

  Inspire, Way

  "Kelly Rowland, The-Dream Talk Emotional 'Dirty Laundry' Single: Exclusive" by Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. May 15, 2013.

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