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All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 20
Actor
Composer
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Buffy St. Marie
Beverly Sainte-Marie
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I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.
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Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.
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My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
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Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.
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I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.
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The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
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As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song (Until It's Time for You To Go) popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.
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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
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We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
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I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.
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Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
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The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
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There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
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I sang a song in Hindi nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.
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But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
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Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
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Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
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I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.
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Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.
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That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
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