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'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 -
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
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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 -
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Langston Hughes
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I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
Hannah Murray -
Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.
Merrick Garland -
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Eddie Murphy -
Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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