Joni Mitchell Quotes About Art
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I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.
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When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.
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Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.
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I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. I thought, that's interesting, because I believe a total unwillingness to cooperate is what is necessary to be an artist — not for perverse reasons, but to protect your vision. The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. That's why I spend my time now painting.
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When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.
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I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
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Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
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The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
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That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.
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For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
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The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.
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