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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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 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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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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90% of the world's data was created in the last two years.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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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.
