Eleanor Clark Quotes
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
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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.
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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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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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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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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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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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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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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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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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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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.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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I’ve experienced this as a songwriter working with, and helping develop, new artists. This is truly a page out of a new artist book that has a song that blows up and then is just trying to play catch-up. That really is the story of Chase in this first season. He’s not even thinking about who he is as an artist, he’s being told and given these songs.
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As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
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Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.
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When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.
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To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
