Norman Bethune Quotes
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.
Norman Bethune
Quotes to Explore
I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Natalie Maines
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
Yoko Ono
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia
Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.
Nick Bantock
The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.
George Gregan
Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
Dak Prescott
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
Sigmund Freud
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
William Wordsworth
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.
Norman Bethune
