Alton Tobey Quotes
It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.
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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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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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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 guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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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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As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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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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There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
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Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.
