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“I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.”

Art Artist Culture Right Now Pops Admire Abstract Pop Art Referencing

Author:Christian Marclay

“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.”

World Mind Hands Kids Young Artist Teacher College Training Theater Incredibles Brilliant Bunch Around The World Young Minds

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.”

Knows Wanted Artist Know How

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.”

Knows Needs Long Artist Certain Games Company Long Time Management Managers Tactics

Author:Meek Mill

“I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.”

Stills Artist Edges Admire Ageing Retaining

Author:Paul McGann

“You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.”

Knows Needs Artist Process Understanding Views Vision Achieve Musician Capable Advantage Point Of View Tick

Author:Tommy Mottola

“For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.”

Want Artist Nostalgia Solo

Author:Bret Michaels

“The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.”

Artist Creative Type Truth Is Climate Like Me Be Creative Promotion Music Business

Author:Chrisette Michele

“Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything.”

Giving Artist Stuff My Favorite Makeup Favorites Things Makeup Artist Free Stuff

Author:Cindy Margolis

“I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.”

Artist Drawing

Author:Craig McCracken

“For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.”

Long Wanted Artist Information Long Time Comic Teens Comic Strips

Author:Craig McCracken

“The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.”

Writing Whole Shows Action Jobs Artist Plans Scene Jokes Shots Mood Etc Pacing

Author:Craig McCracken

“One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.”

Knows Way Children Doe Artist Literature Wonder Know How Alive Poet Blessed Sense Of Wonder

Author:Ella Maillart

“Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.”

Sometimes Artist Voice Being The Best Solitary

Author:Frank Miller

“That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.”

Artist Natural Audience Conscious Obvious Great Art Great Artist

Author:Steve Vai

“I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.”

Thinking Men Want Seems Together Artist Situation Share Mets Ideals Working Together Partnership Woman Artist

Author:Tom Verlaine

“As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.”

People I Can Artist Materials Responsible Being Responsible

Author:Vince Vaughn

“An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.”

Needs Mean Artist Suffering

Author:Joe Wright

“I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!”

Ifs Trying Wells Eye Artist Bits East Shade Ancestor Mixtures Eyelids Anglo Saxon Make Up Artist

Author:Olivia Williams

“You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.”

Feels Used Artist Like You

Author:Pharrell Williams

“I'm an artist; I love everyone.”

Artist Love Everyone

Author:Chris Zylka

“My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.”

People Artist Party Hundred Scientist My Time Elegant Berlin

Author:Eva Zeisel

“I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.”

People Stills Artist Just Being Being Myself

Author:Jenni Rivera

“It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.”

Artist Spirituality Tragic Extremist Hipster Need God

Author:Mike Doughty

“The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.”

Wells Life Is Artist Promise Eternal Scientist Saint Philosopher Drs Testament Johnson Eternal Life New Testament Blake Milton Augustine Hippo Huxley Bernard Shaw Dr Johnson

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.”

Way Artist Rich Fame Motive Tangible Being An Artist Become Rich

Author:Dirk Benedict

“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.”

Art Light Artist Water Generations Dog Objects Materials Thousand Paint Smoke Chairs Electric Sock Neon Neon Lights

Author:Allan Kaprow

“The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.”

Trying Real Young Artist Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary Things Ordinariness Young Artists

Author:Allan Kaprow

“Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.”

Ifs Persons Artist Categories Dilemma

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.”

Home Artist Taken Activity Achievement Happenings Myth Melodrama

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.”

Art Artist Approach Mere Fragile Thread Marvelous Surroundings Melting Elusive Configuration

Author:Allan Kaprow

“I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.”

Persons Sometimes Play Artist Father Basketball Musician Painter Larry

Author:Larry Sanders

“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.”

People Looks Mean Kids School Mother Artist Song Greater Picks Stores Groceries Being An Artist Grocery Stores

Author:Faith Evans

“I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.”

Thinking Want Kind Artist Names Depends Sells Brands Shameful

Author:Adele

“I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.”

People Ifs Want Writing Artist Song Talent Managers Want Me Nurture New Talent

Author:Adele

“I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.”

Want Feels I Can Remember Artist Fans

Author:Adele

“If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.”

People Ifs Want Kind Different Artist Waiting Stupid Exercise Prejudice Be Kind Hobbies Schedules Solo

Author:Chris Cornell

“Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?”

Trying Doe Art Artist Three Asking Photographer Appropriate Modest

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”

Ifs Trying Artist Values Turns Records Truth Is Difficulty Threat Photographer Selling Contradiction Gray Shade Cash Worn Shades Of Gray

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.”

Helping Artist Vision Morning Streets Minutes Subjects Painting Photographer Thirty Sunday Significance Discovering Sunday Morning

Author:Robert Adams

“I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.”

Different Shows Artist Willing Approach Admire Angle Different Angles Different Approach

Author:Shania Twain

“I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.”

Artist Mystery Elements

Author:Bruno Mars

“I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.”

Ifs Want Feels Mind Jobs Artist Students Producers Curves Filling Being An Artist

Author:Bruno Mars

“All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.”

Desire Artist Bears Transformation Unconscious Rooted True Artists

Book:To the director and playwright

Source: To the director and playwright

“The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.”

Ideas Problem Artist Order Car Genius Solutions Enormous Paris Resolve Dictator Bloody Centre Demolish

Author:Leon Krier

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.”

Writing Play Artist Instruments Songwriters True Artists Darius

Author:Randy Houser

“MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.”

People World Art Artist Actors Fashion Industry Involved Musician Mtv Art World Fashion Industry

Author:Karlie Kloss

“The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.”

Knows Artist Nothing New Acclaim

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

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