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 didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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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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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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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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I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.
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From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.
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I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.
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There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'
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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.
