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Installation Artist Inspirational Quotes (813)

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I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.
Jeff Koons
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I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.
Yayoi Kusama
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I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.
Chris Burden
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You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
Kiki Smith
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst
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Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
Carolee Schneemann
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I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.
John Waters
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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
Jeff Koons
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My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
Louise Bourgeois
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
Damien Hirst
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In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment.
Olafur Eliasson
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I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.
John Waters
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If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.
Sandy Skoglund
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
Kiki Smith
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I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.
John Waters
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I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
Louise Bourgeois
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
Bill Viola
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There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.
Damien Hirst
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One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
Tracey Emin
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I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.
Betye Saar
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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
Louise Bourgeois
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I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.
James Turrell
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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Nam June Paik
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Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.
Agathe Snow
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