Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.Catherynne M. Valente
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
Yoko Ono -
I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
Dana Carvey -
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger -
Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
Cameron Dallas -
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
Walter Hill
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
Randy Harrison -
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson -
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
Larry Wall -
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles -
My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
G. Willow Wilson -
My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
Ted Danson
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith Evans -
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
Irvine Welsh -
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
P. J. Harvey -
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
Octavio Paz -
There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.
Madi Diaz -
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
Gary Allan
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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Oscar Wilde -
You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
Ted Dekker -
Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
La'Porsha Renae -
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.
Catherynne M. Valente