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 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.
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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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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
