Studios Quotes - Page 13

• You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

  Twyla Tharp

  Hard Work, Skills, May

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

  John Cage

  Art, Past, Ideas

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• I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.

  Jane Yolen

  Jealous, Artist, Impact

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• I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Steve Martin Introduces the best adapted screenplay at the 2003 Academy Awards, 2003.

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• Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Wall, Cat

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Oil, Smell, Mountain

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• Normal and I parted ways when Pateir1ch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic, moves like smoke, and lives alone in a supersecret, superswanky studio beneath Delphic Amusement Park. The sound of his voice, low and sexy, can melt my heart in three seconds flat. He’s also a fallen angel, kicked out of heaven for his flexibility when it comes to following rules. I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Running, Sexy, Moving

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• Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Children, Men

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• On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Being Alone, Creativity, Winning

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• The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Memories, Coffee

  Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”

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• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Dance, Mother, Teaching

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• Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Art, Men

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.171, Rowman & Littlefield

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• ...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

  Peter Martins

  Dance, Sweat, Stage

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• Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Real, Hate

  Song: Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.Z

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• Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Mother, New York

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much because I'm breastfeeding. See this glass of wine? Before, I'd have, like, four of them. Now, one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking. . . I've exorcised a lot of my demons, but I'm still working on myself. I think I'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life.

  Pink

  Morning, Badass, Drinking

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• Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Eye, Exercise, Garden

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• My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

  Rick Wakeman

  Travel, Adventure, Player

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• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Travel, Morning

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• I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.

  Stevie Nicks

  Makeup, Hair, Stuff

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• Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Money, Waiting, Looks

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• I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Entering, Shrines

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• What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

  Bruce Nauman

  Art, Doe, Should

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• Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

  Vince McMahon

  Running, Business, Management

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• I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

  Irving Penn

  Work Out, Variables, Introducing

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