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.
Yoko Ono
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky
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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.
Samuel Barber
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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.
J. D. Salinger
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia
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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.
iO Tillett Wright
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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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.
Usher
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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.
Hanya Yanagihara
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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.
Walter Gropius
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I just want to be rich and famous.
Ian Hart
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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.
Ed Wood
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
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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.
Adam McKay
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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.
Natascha McElhone
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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.
Kara Walker
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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.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is - you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence.
Ang Lee
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The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.
Frederick Law Olmsted
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
Abraham Whipple
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A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.
David Bronstein
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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.
Warren MacKenzie