Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes

It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Place

• My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Art
  • Home

• I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Broken
  • Connection

• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Art
  • Black
  • Automation

• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Art
  • Always
  • Blame

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Art
  • Movie

• When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Real
  • Home
  • Nice

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Family
  • Name
  • Outside

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Art
  • You
  • Mood

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Country
  • Name

• We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Art
  • Band

• Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Art

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Different
  • Important
  • Perfect

• An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Time
  • Country
  • Study

• It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Art
  • Name
  • Letters