Sebastiao Salgado Quotes
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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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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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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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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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
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I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
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If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
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Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for the magazines and newspapers, and it can be very tiring for your well-being.
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Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.
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I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.
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“Prayer frees the mind of all thought of the sensory and raises it to God Himself, Who is above all, to converse with Him and daringly ask Him for anything. Thus a man spends his life in purity, as one who, having already experienced communion with God, is thereupon again preparing for this communion.”
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The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.
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I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
