Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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.
Yoko Ono -
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky -
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 -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
Kara Hayward -
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius -
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
Barry Manilow -
I write in the studio.
Macy Gray -
R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
Babyface
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Kara Walker -
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
Parker Harris -
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker -
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Langston Hughes -
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
Taylor Swift
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
Patrick Ness -
Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I used to carry a briefcase instead of a school bag when going to school because I was shy and introverted then. But over the years, especially Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) helped me overcome these insecurities and scale greater heights.
Rajeev Suri -
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
Haruki Murakami