“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.” ThinkingYearsArtDoneEnoughUseArtistWrittenWasteYears AgoMethodPossessionHad EnoughDisgusted Author:Edward Ruscha
“I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.” YearsArtMadeArtistBlackWhiteDecisionCareersCreativePiecesYears AgoMagazinesArtisticApologyBlack And WhitePublicationPrestigious Author:Andrea Thompson
“We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".” PeopleYearsBelieveArtistCultureYears AgoIndiaRegardBehaveOther Cultures Author:Arthur Erickson
“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingYearsBookFactsHandsArtistCultureDemocracyTvsHundredYears AgoPressesCorporateLiteracyPercentagesPrintingCorporate CulturePrinting PressMoaningGutenberg Author:Sherman Alexie
“[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.” YearsKindArtArtistAbilityMillionsPeriodsLateYears AgoAppreciateAppreciationImaginativeJaneAustenQuartets Author:Denis Dutton
“I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth—artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.” YearsLooksArtistValuesObjectsYouthYears AgoPossessionResonance Author:Nicholas Haslam
“Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.” YearsKindLongIdeasArtistFourLong TimeYears AgoSticksSlaveFour YearsNew IdeasStorytellerAnimation Author:Signe Baumane
“The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.” YearsIdeasArtistVoiceHappenedCreaturesYears AgoOptimisticThirtySolitaryThirty Years Author:Wendy Ewald
“I used to produce years ago when I feel like. I produced myself, Bounty Killer. That was the first set. Then I did a Bounty Killer, Lexxus, Spragga Benz, Sizzla, a whole lot of artist.” FeelsYearsFirstsWholeUsedArtistProduceYears AgoKillersBountyBenz Author:Lady Saw
“I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about how to go about in the record business you would get 5 years ago is no longer valid. Everything is changing very rapidly and there is an increased sense of anger and despair among artists that are not major-selling megastars.” IfsKnowsYearsArtistRecordsPiecesAdviceRight NowDespairMajorsModelsYears AgoSelling Author:Olof Arnalds
“I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.” YearsWellsSchoolArtistPowerfulCreatingUnderstoodYears AgoEightBrandsNarrativeEmpoweringPlatformsExplainingLecturesImplicationsHarvardOxfordStanfordBusiness School Author:MC Hammer
“I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces.” ThinkingNeedsWritingYearsWellsRunningAbleArtistSpacePerspectiveInternetBandFemaleYears AgoCriticismMy TimeTwelvePieVocalTouringPostersSiftingFemale Artists Author:Amanda Palmer
“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.” ThinkingYearsMayMadeMightArtistSongSoundVisionMillionsRecordsHeardMediaParticularReaderSixYears AgoBlowReviewersPersonal Vision Author:Van Morrison
“I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.” YearsKindLongHas BeensArtistPeriodsYears AgoHungryFatsLong Periods Of Time Author:Lenny Kravitz
“It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.” PeopleKnowsYearsStillsDifferentTodayArtistRecordsKeysTenYears AgoOnlineComing OutSinglesNew Artists Author:Avril Lavigne
“The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.” PeopleWayWritingYearsStillsArtistRevolutionYears AgoMagazinesSixtyVersusParadigmExhibitionsRelicsCurator Author:Jerry Saltz
“About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.” YearsArtistThreeProcessTechnologyMagicExerciseYears AgoToolsFasterDigitalOpennessThree YearsInclusivenessDigital Tools Author:Marco Tempest