Ed Wood Quotes
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Quotes to Explore
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
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There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
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But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?
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I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
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Nobody is immune. There are elements that are very bad and the reputations of countries and citizens are at stake.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
