Zanele Muholi Quotes
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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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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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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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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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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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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
