Eric Maisel Quotes
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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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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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
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I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.
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America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
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I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?'
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
