Ansel Adams Quotes
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
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I believe I was ahead of my time.
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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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I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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I never want to lose touch with reality. I won't push $100 candles just because. I realized that I could create a hub of positivity and affirmation.
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What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man’s animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God’s sanctity
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Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
