Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

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• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

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• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

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• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

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• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  

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• Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

  

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• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

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• The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

  

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• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

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• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

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• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

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• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

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• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

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• Artists are mechanics who work with their hands, making things. Artists are involved with the means of creativity, the nature of skills, the revelation of making. Art comes from the work, I see a painting as an expressive entity. There's no picture that I know of where the subject carries as much expressive possibility as the actual execution of the picture.

  

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• I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

  

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• They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
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• My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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• I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Diamond