Etgar Keret Quotes

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

Etgar Keret

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Know
  • Always
  • Artist

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• 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
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• 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
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Artist
  • Right
  • Input

• When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Idea

• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Artist

• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Great
  • Imagination
  • Artist

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Shakespeare

• There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Perfect
  • Single
  • Artist

• It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Different
  • Like
  • Artist

• Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

  

  Banks
  • Artist
  • Every
  • Heartbeat

• I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Mom
  • Woman
  • Artist

• I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Boy

• Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

  

  Dan Graham
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Choices
  • Insurance
  • Campaign

• I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • I Know
  • Lands
  • Goldenrod

• I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Artist
  • Misanthropic