Hector Berlioz Quotes
It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
Quotes to Explore
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
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It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
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I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.
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A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.
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The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
