Brice Marden Quotes
Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.
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The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.
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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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When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
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I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.
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I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
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Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.
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Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
