Warren MacKenzie Quotes

I've been influenced by someone or English artists work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

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• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
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  • Important
  • Example

• 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
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Day
  • Artist
  • Everyday

• It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Time
  • Environment
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• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Movie
  • Nature
  • Taken

• 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
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Artist

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
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  • Beauty

• We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Artist
  • English

• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Real
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  • Rap

• Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

  

  Banks
  • Artist
  • Every
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• There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,

  

  Jason Aldean
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• I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.

  

  Adele
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• I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Artist
  • Term
  • My Own

• The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Artist
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mom

• I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  

  F. William Engdahl
  • Democracy
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  • Afghanistan

• I've been influenced by someone or English artists work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
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