Eleanor Clark Quotes
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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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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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
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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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There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,
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It’s a liberating experience to think of God as an Artist. The joy He felt in creation. The care that was taken in the formation of the cosmos. The thoughtfulness and energy it would take to sculpt the mountains…
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
