Wendy Ewald Quotes
Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.
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If you’re an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time’s passing go slower or faster than it does for me?
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Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.
