Artist Quotes - Page 38

• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  Lance Reddick

  Stars, Rocks, Black

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

  Robert Redford

  Country, Lying, Eye

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• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

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• As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Tools, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

  Al Yankovic

  Long, Wish, Standing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, Projects

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2004.

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• Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

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• I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Gun, Thinking, Design

  Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.

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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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