Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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The more far-out artists, the better.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
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My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.
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I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
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In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
