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.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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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.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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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.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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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.
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I write in the studio.
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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.
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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.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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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.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.
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I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
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In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.
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I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
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The ways in which theological constructs pose questions about what it is to be a human being on this earth are deeply elegant and deeply interesting to me. I may not always agree with the answers religion offers, but I take great interest in the questions it poses.
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
