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

• 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

• 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

• I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Up
  • Together
  • Hand

• God and other artists are always a little obscure....

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Always
  • Artists

• People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• This life is a process of learning.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Process

• And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Influence
  • Changes
  • Harmony

• I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

  

  Walter Farley
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

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

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Stories
  • Artists
  • Novels