David Alfaro Siqueiros Quotes
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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I would love to have played Gollum.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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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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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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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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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
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My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
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The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
