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“I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.”

“My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.”

“I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.”

Writing Body Artist Guy Stuff Watches Type Scene Noise Unconscious Online Martial Arts Youtube Choke Other Guys Martial Artist

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“The more far-out artists, the better.”

Artist

Author:Gary Wright

“I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Artist Singers

Author:Jessie Ware

“I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.”

People Thinking Humans Kind Artist Dark Periods Legends Coming Out

Author:Kristen Wiig

“I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.”

Want Artist Creative Style Emotional Performances Creative Art Cerebral Creative Artists Whirling Dervish

Author:Scott Weiland

“What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?”

Kind Artist Performances Newspapers Seats Reviews Moron Austin

Author:Al Yankovic

“As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.”

Artist Opinion Focus Distraction Guessing Second Guessing Second Guessing Yourself

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.”

Giving Has Beens Film Form Artist Acting Pure Film Acting

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“And exciting buildings are fine periodically.”

Artist Building Fine Exciting

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.”

Ifs Way Artist Building Contributing

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.”

Knows Should Important Artist Quality Building Instance Consistent Gothic Cathedrals

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Artist Influence Direct Architecture Mechanic Japanese Architecture

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.”

Ifs Men Looks Artist Building One Man Another Man Facade

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.”

Doe Artist Building Truck Eclectic Eclectic Style

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.”

World Artist Building Ears Contemporary Around The World Not Interested

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.”

Jobs Artist Company My Favorite Gas

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”

Trying Artist Building Architecture Painter Consistent Sculptors

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.”

People Knows Able Artist

Author:Tony Yayo

“I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.”

Knows World Artist Consciousness Bob Timeless Dylan Marley

Author:Will Ferrell

“Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.”

Knows Looks Kind Stills Artist Consciousness Conscious Boxes Legends History Of Music

Author:Will Ferrell

“Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.”

People World Way Trying Different Artist Style Evolution Impact West Hip Hop Hips Evolve Hops Different Things Different Peoples Wayne Different Styles Impact On The World Outkast

Author:Will Ferrell

“I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.”

Thinking Way Writing Doe Artist Song Quality Creative Tunes Melody Gifted Auto Tune

Author:Will Ferrell

“I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.”

Feels Feelings Artist Creating Feels Right Creating Things

Author:Will Ferrell

“'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless ambient mix that shows Subb-an has more strings to his bow. We are always keen to push artists out of their comfort zone and really show the world what they are capable of.”

World Shows Artist Pieces Modern Comfort Capable Complexes Musical Rhythm Zone Strings Bows Comfort Zone Intricate Weaving Ambient Modern Love

Author:Subb-an

“The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.”

Trying Artist Culture Term Christianity Effects Poet Creating Avant Garde Creating Something

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.”

Used Artist Culture Courses Language Interest Christianity Audience Materials Genius Taste Capacity Accounts Paint Indifference Laziness Ignored Strict Marble Incompetence Tamed Haughty

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.”

Seems Age Christian Desire Artist Culture Christianity Generations Fashion Stupid Late Picks Tradition Oneself Relevant Secular Short Sighted Unchristian

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.”

World Looks Art Whole Helping Together Artist Spirituality Force Justice Struggle Seeing Creation Genuine Invisible Make Sense Visible Reaching Reach Out Puzzles Glimpse

Author:N. T. Wright

“In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.”

Mean Eye Artist Order Beauty Inspire Goodness Tradition Ancient Rome Viewers Greece Captured Ancient Greece Greece And Rome

Author:John Walford

“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.”

Artist Belief Beauty Modern Metaphor Belief Systems Modern Art Dubious Postmodern

Author:John Walford

“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.”

Writing Said Artist Deals Novelists

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”

Artist Leader

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.”

Littles Different Used Artist Bounds Boxes Labels Gifted Great Art Being Different Great Artist

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

Ifs Trying Heart Kind May Different Soul Faces Artist Example Painting Masters Perspective Hundred Claims All Kinds Painter Working It Display Masterpiece Heart And Soul Different Perspective

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”

Ifs Want Art Done Artist Hours Crazy Creatures Projects Architecture Rip Eleventh Hour

Author:Maya Lin

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”

War Artist Individual Lost Modern Approach Definitions Acknowledgement Individual Life

Author:Maya Lin

“Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.”

Want Artist Invoke

Author:Maya Lin

“It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.”

Mind Ideas Artist Audience Mines Terrified Of My Mind

Author:Maya Lin

“The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.”

Artist Teaching

Author:Maya Lin

“I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.”

People Writing Wells Art Artist Given Talent Elements Responsible Performing Craftsman Spiritualism Writing Well Performing Well

Author:Al Franken

“The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.”

Artist Numbers Contemporary Appeals

Author:Nick Lowe

“I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.”

Artist Goes On Albums

Author:Skylar Laine

“A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.”

Thinking Artist Animal Hip Hop Symbols Hips Hops Fur Register Status Symbol Hip Hop Artist

Author:Tommy Lee

“For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.”

Ifs I Can Ends Artist Love Is Music Is Bass Contributing

Author:Tony Levin

“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”

Giving Jobs Faces Artist Answers Fronts Mirrors Your Face

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Impact

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.”

Artist Growing Up Growing Example Theater

Author:Brit Marling

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