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Installation Artist Inspirational Quotes (813)

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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
Alfredo Jaar
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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
Dan Flavin
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Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.
Kiki Smith
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I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say f off. But after a while you can get away with things.
Damien Hirst
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Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.
John Waters
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But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
Damien Hirst
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I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.
Kiki Smith
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Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
Cornelia Parker
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Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.
Glenn Ligon
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
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If it's not good, it's not the end.
Jeppe Hein
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I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.
Aleksandra Mir
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I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.
Carolee Schneemann
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
Kiki Smith
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You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.
John Waters
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I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.
John Waters
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
Damien Hirst
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I love art. It is uplifting.
Damien Hirst
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I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.
Jeff Koons
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And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
John Waters
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Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.
John Waters
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The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.
Kara Walker
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We are the result of the stimulus we receive.
Alfredo Jaar
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Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.
Bruce Nauman
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