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Visual Artist Inspirational Quotes (2585)

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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Anish Kapoor
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
Anish Kapoor
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
Anish Kapoor
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to
Anish Kapoor
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
Anish Kapoor
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
Anish Kapoor
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
Anish Kapoor
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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
Anish Kapoor
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You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
Anish Kapoor
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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
Anish Kapoor
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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
Anish Kapoor
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I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
Anish Kapoor
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
Anish Kapoor
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
Anish Kapoor
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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
Anish Kapoor
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
Anish Kapoor
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Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
Marcel Duchamp
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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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If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
Christian Marclay
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Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.
Vik Muniz
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I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.
Vik Muniz
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If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.
Vik Muniz
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Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.
Vik Muniz
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