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.
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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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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.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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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.
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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.
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Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.
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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,
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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.
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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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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.
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I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.
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Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.
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It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.
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The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
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It takes discipline to be a free spirit.
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I've been influenced by someone or English artists work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.
