Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Books
  • Novels

• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Novels

• 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.

  

  Kaskade
  • World
  • Best
  • Always

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• 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.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• The more far-out artists, the better.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Better
  • More
  • Artists

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Black
  • Artists
  • Latin

• I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Need
  • Artists
  • Director

• Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Artists
  • Very
  • Musically

• 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.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Book
  • Stories
  • See

• My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Artists
  • Shine

• 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.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Party
  • Wife
  • Son

• 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.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Real
  • Job
  • Crazy

• Stories don’t always have happy endings.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Stories

• The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Why
  • Control
  • Stories

• It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Great
  • Stories
  • Thanks

• And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Why
  • Control
  • Human

• It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Artists
  • Occurs
  • Reproduced

• The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Learn
  • Actors
  • Directors

• Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But all you must drink life's gall.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Different
  • Heaven
  • Training

• The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Stories
  • Artists
  • Novels