William Morris Quotes
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
William Morris
Quotes to Explore
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini
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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.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
Kapil Sibal
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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.
J. D. Salinger
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia
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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.
Van Cliburn
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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.
iO Tillett Wright
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
Warren G
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Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
Kate Christensen
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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
Takeshi Kitano
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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.
Dan Graham
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When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
Eric Maisel
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The most amazing feeling I feel
Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
Maybe I paint the sky blue
My greatest creation was you.
Jay-Z
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The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.
Vandana Shiva
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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
William Morris
