Warren MacKenzie Quotes
St. Ives is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
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St. Ives is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.
