Art Quote by Tionne Watkins

“I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.”

Tionne Watkins

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I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help…

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The record business sucks!

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I think timing is everything.

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I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to…

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At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do…

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I grew up around guys and got along with them better.

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I feel naked without earrings. I'll pass out twice. It feels like I'm missing a body part.

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I'm never going to put another girl in my group. Never!

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In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

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I'm not ashamed of anything I've done, because if I feel ashamed, I'm not going to do it in the first place.

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I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on…

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Great music, timeless music is hard to come by, but there are some that are like that.

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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