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Installation Artist Inspirational Quotes (812)

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[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.
Annette Messager
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I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.
Annette Messager
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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
Annette Messager
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it
Matthew Barney
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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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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
Urs Fischer
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If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them, but it's brutal. I like the idea of an artist as somebody who works. A lot of the artists I like share this understanding.
Urs Fischer
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
Urs Fischer
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
Urs Fischer
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You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.
Michal Rovner
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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I don't think irony is about judgment I think irony is something like, Oh, that's interesting, because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.
Jeff Koons
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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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I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
Jeff Koons
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Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.
John Waters
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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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Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
Antony Gormley
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Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
John Waters
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
Louise Bourgeois
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You shouldn't have to justify your work.
Judy Chicago
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Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.
Nam June Paik
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Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
Allan Kaprow
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