A Quote by Lauren Jauregui
There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.
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All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.
My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
I've had to play characters who I absolutely disagree with, as far as their politics, as far as their religion, and their stance on certain social issues, I completely disagree with them. But I have to go in and find who they are and get to their core, into their truth, and have absolute faith and believe in that, in order to portray it. So you have to walk in a lot of different shoes, in that you can't help but have your mind open as a result of that.
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'
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