Matt Serletic famous quotes

I love the idea of finding new talent, however you do it, and the television mechanism - seeing artists grow and rise to the occasion - is a medium that actually works because there's a way for the audience to get to know an artist and for the artist to improve.
-- Matt Serletic

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How do you convince radio to play you? How do you make a good video? How do you pose for a photo session that conveys who you are? These are real challenges that if you get wrong in the real world, you're done.
-- Matt Serletic

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I think historically there have always been new ways to find an artist. From seeing somebody in a club traditionally to running across them on YouTube, it's always shifting. But the age-old thing holds true: Is the artist unique? Are they talented? And can they communicate? Can they actually reach an audience and hold their attention?
-- Matt Serletic

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What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.