Arthur Fogel Quotes
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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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.
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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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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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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.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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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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I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
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God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.
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We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.
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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.
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I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.
