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Printmaker Inspirational Quotes (3398)

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I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.
Robert Indiana
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I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.
Odilon Redon
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
Ad Reinhardt
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
Ad Reinhardt
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad Reinhardt
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
Ad Reinhardt
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt
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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
Ad Reinhardt
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The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Ad Reinhardt
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I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
Ad Reinhardt
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
Ad Reinhardt
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
Ad Reinhardt
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
Ad Reinhardt
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As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
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The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
Ad Reinhardt
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Ad Reinhardt
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
Ad Reinhardt
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, We don't have anything in your size.
Nan Goldin
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
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People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
Lee Krasner
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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
Nan Goldin
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I want it to be 70 per cent beautiful, 15 per cent surrealistically beautiful, and the rest so beautiful that nobody can bear it.
Zhang Huan
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