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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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
Ed Parker
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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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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Oscar Wilde
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I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.
Yayoi Kusama
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I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
Ernest Becker
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Create, artist, do not talk.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe