"An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist."

-- Rokia Traore

#Artist Quotes #Audience Quotes

“There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.”
“I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.”

Source : "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 01, 2011.
“The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.”

Source : Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012
“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.”
“I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.”
“Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of womenâ€™s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.”

Source : "The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.
“Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.”
“I like sleeping at the minute, I don't really get the chance to do that.”

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