Debbie Harry Quotes
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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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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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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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.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?
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It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”) to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
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To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
