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Printmaker Inspirational Quotes (3398)

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This is New York. You gotta work from upstairs to downstairs! You gotta work both ends of the street to have a career. Because it's not just fabricating an artwork. Your works have to go out into the world they have to go to market. This art on the hoof has to be moved it's got to go to the slaughterhouse at some point. Keep those dogies rollin'!
Keith Sonnier
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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...
Tracey Emin
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni
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Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.
Umberto Boccioni
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It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.
Umberto Boccioni
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These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
Umberto Boccioni
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To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
Umberto Boccioni
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
Nan Goldin
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A painter is a choreographer of space.
Barnett Newman
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.
Jackson Pollock
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
David Hockney
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Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Art Spiegelman
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.
Marcel Dzama
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
Kiki Smith
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Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.
Victor Vasarely
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The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.
Victor Vasarely
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I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.
Marcel Dzama
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
Nan Goldin
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What interests me is the unforeseeable.
Sigmar Polke
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My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.
Beat Streuli
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I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'
James Rosenquist
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If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.
Gunter Grass
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