"Part of being an artist is being willing……" — Holly Near

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being… - Holly Near

"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."

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39 Quotes by Holly Near

Holly Near has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let…
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The…
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best…
All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and…
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I…
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first…
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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