Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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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.
J. D. Salinger
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
Randall Kennedy
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
Yayoi Kusama
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
Natalie Cole
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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.
Walter Gropius
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
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I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.
Carly Fiorina
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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.
Aaron Johnson
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles
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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
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
D. B. Sweeney
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
Babyface
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I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
Billy Joel
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
Albert Camus
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I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.... Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.... Finally, the nation is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willing to die for such limited imaginings.
Benedict Anderson
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I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
Nolan Bushnell
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Create, artist, do not talk.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe