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Printmaker Inspirational Quotes (3398)

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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
Georges Braque
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Henri Matisse
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There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.
Zoe Leonard
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I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.
Zoe Leonard
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When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.
Zoe Leonard
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Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.
Zoe Leonard
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If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
Zoe Leonard
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The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.
Zoe Leonard
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Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.
Zoe Leonard
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I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
Robert Rauschenberg
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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
Gunter Grass
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not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.
Cornelia Parker
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I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Rene Magritte
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I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.
Aleksandra Mir
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When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody thought was ridiculous, he realized that this was the right provocation, that it represented the feeling of the times in the right way.
Georg Baselitz
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I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.
Rene Magritte
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A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
Louise Bourgeois
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I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.
Nan Goldin
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I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
Julie Mehretu
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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
David Hockney
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A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Rembrandt
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
Walter Darby Bannard
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I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
Kiki Smith
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