Ezra Pound Quotes
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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Sex is a discovery.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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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 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 am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.
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I watched and learned about music as a member of Big Bang. Of course it's important to show my charms as an artist by showing my abilities but that's what our solo activities are for.
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The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.
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It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.
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Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
