Cornell Capa Quotes
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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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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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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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.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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Tradition has made women cowardly.
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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.
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Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for the magazines and newspapers, and it can be very tiring for your well-being.
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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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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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
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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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Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
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Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?
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I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
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Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
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I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference.
