Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) Quotes
Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.
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When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.
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I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.
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Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
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One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.
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Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?
