Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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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 -
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.
Cameron Dallas -
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia -
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 -
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
Gary Hume -
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Ed Wood
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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.
Ralph Waite -
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles -
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt -
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.
Gary Clark Jr. -
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
Barbara Rosenblat
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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.
Babyface -
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Kara Walker -
I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
Karen Bender -
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
Bebe Rexha -
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
Dale T. Mortensen -
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
Barry Humphries -
We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth. And the heart of America will begin to melt in the face of truth and charity.
Alveda King -
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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