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Printmaker Inspirational Quotes (3398)

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The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.
Winslow Homer
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There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
Winslow Homer
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You have the sky overhead giving one light then the reflected light from whatever reflects then the direct light of the sun so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.
Winslow Homer
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What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.
Winslow Homer
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Remember our heritage is our power we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
Judy Chicago
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
Henri Matisse
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I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.
Bruce Nauman
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My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
Claes Oldenburg
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I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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I love people, and photographing people is something I hope I never get tired of.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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Boy George of course, was my idol as a teenager. I haven't photographed him, even though I know him now. He wants the pictures to be retouched, and I don't want that.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this absurd act of pissing on a chair rather than in a toilet or on the ground, and this minimal act being so transgressive, even though no major harm is done.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers
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a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
Vincent Van Gogh
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
Henri Matisse
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Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?
Camille Pissarro
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney
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