J. D. Salinger Quotes
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.J. D. Salinger
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Natalie Maines -
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky -
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini -
I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole -
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
Eddie Marsan -
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia -
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
Van Cliburn -
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
Ian Hislop -
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius -
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson -
Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
Fetty Wap -
My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
G. Willow Wilson -
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
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I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.
Naya Rivera -
I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag -
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger