Van Cliburn Quotes
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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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 don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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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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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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A primitive power of artistic sensuousness speaks from the prints, which itself develops directly from the graphic technique that is tied to painstaking effort. Like the 'savage' who with patience cuts the figure.. ..out of the hard wood, so the artist creates perhaps his purest and strongest pieces.. ..following the primordial curse, if one may so understand it: from the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.