Dennis Oppenheim Quotes
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky -
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
Larry Wall -
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.
G. Willow Wilson -
Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
Kaskade -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
Barbara Rosenblat -
If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
Tahj Mowry -
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
Bebe Rexha -
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
Irwin Winkler
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Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for the magazines and newspapers, and it can be very tiring for your well-being.
Yuna -
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
Kanye West -
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Zadie Smith -
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
Alyssa Milano
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Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Rhys Ifans -
I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
Weili Dai -
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Thomas Carlyle -
I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.
Katharine Hepburn -
An artist works through exposed wounds.
Dennis Oppenheim