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Installation Artist Inspirational Quotes (813)

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At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.
Glenn Ligon
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In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
Tania Bruguera
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Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be persistent. That's very important. There's nothing instant about it. It's a way of life, actually, where you choose to spend your life doing this activity called making art.
Michael C. McMillen
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I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some large pieces. Ideas come from all kinds of areas literature, popular culture, dreams, you name it.
Michael C. McMillen
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I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.
John Waters
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There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
Bill Viola
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People vomitied at my movies not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
John Waters
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At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.
Chris Burden
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Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.
Carrie Mae Weems
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
Kiki Smith
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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
Louise Bourgeois
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Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
John Waters
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More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
Yayoi Kusama
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I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.
Cory Arcangel
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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
Louise Bourgeois
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I love to read about anger. A feel bad book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.
John Waters
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I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.
Urs Fischer
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The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.
Martha Rosler
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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
Damien Hirst
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I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
Damien Hirst
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst
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The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
Jeff Koons
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The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.
John Waters
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
Urs Fischer
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