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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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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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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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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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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An artist works through exposed wounds.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
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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.
