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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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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The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
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Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
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Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.
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To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
