“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.” MaySchoolArtistTurnsTeacherTownsPainterCopiesHonourAbandonedImitation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesDoneKidsArtistForgetWatchesTvsLike YouHairTownsDesignerLittle Kid Author:Genevieve Gorder
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.” WritingArtTwoImportantBookAbleLastsArtistCultureLiteraturePoliticsLeftKnownNew YorkProduceMajorsConnectionsTownsUniversityAccessObsessedReviewsPublishingAmerican CultureManhattanPhilipVanguardBook ReviewJoe Mccarthy Book:God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays
“Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.” MayPersonsCountryBigsAmericaArtistActorsChallengesCompanyMajorsTownsActressesGrantsTouring Author:Louise Slaughter
“If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.” IfsMayRealityArtistTownsInstinctWesternDrawingGutsIllustrationDuplicate Author:Jack Kirby
“I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.” ThinkingWantFeelsI CanCountryArtistCommunityFansTownsMusicalSkatesCountry Artist Author:Sheryl Crow
“When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.” MenWorldMadeUseArtistCommunityChanceMajorsTownsPraiseFrankOur Town Author:Paul Goodman
“I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.” YearsLongArtistBornInterestingCitiesTraditionMy FamilyTownsPainterScholarVery InterestingDynastyShanghai Author:I. M. Pei
“I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.” MeanPlayKidsArtistGoalHappenedGrewGrew UpTownsFatsConcertsSmall TownViolinMinnesotaFat Kid Author:Gretchen Carlson
“I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that's a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.” PeopleThinkingKindArtistOpportunityResponsibilityBlessingUniqueTownsBe KindPerformersUnique Opportunities Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.” CountryArtistCultureTownsHip HopHipsHopsBubblesUrbanImpressSectionsGrimeKeds Author:M.I.A.
“[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.” IdeasArtistRichWonderfulTownsPopulationArtisticFishingSympatheticPlaces To LiveWonderful Places Author:Warren MacKenzie
“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.” LittlesEyeArtistTurnsSeaMissingNew YorkEuropeTownsFarmsDiscontentLittle Towns Author:Norman Rockwell
“Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?” TryingYearsArtistWonderImagineCenturyPositionTownsItalianRenaissanceLeonardoRaphael Author:Jerry Saltz
“Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.” IfsMenLooksUseShowsMightScienceArtistExistenceStyleYouthGeniusNeededScientistTownsAskingArchitectureTemptationVisibleFairyLatterTonightHallsTemptedDining Author:Max Perutz
“I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.” IfsBelieveTodayArtistHateLike YouTownsCreamPacksNew Artists Author:Steven Curtis Chapman
“Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.” YoungArtistMusicianTownsVolumeYoung Writers Author:Steven Curtis Chapman