Chloe Wise Quotes

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

Chloe Wise

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Over

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Information

• We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Single

• I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.

  

  Karen O
  • Crazy
  • Myself
  • Exploration

• 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.
  • People
  • Help
  • Fashion

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

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

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Know
  • Artist
  • Say

• You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Crazy

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Crazy

• When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Idea

• What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character; I focus on warmth and a heart, but I don't know if it's because I'm African American or because I'm crazy -who knows.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Heart
  • Character
  • American

• If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Artist
  • Voice
  • Impact

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

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Crazy

• If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Success
  • Crazy
  • My Mind

• Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Artist
  • Difference
  • Temperament

• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Get
  • Leave
  • Manhattan

• I loved Road Warrior the first time. I saw The Road Warrior before I saw Mad Max, you know, I saw it in reverse order. And so I was, I've always been a fan of George Miller. This sequence I think got storyboarded after Fury Road came out I think as I recall. So I think, you know, we were inspired [making Maora].

  

  John Musker
  • Thinking
  • Inspired
  • Mad

• To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

  

  Chloe Wise
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Expressive