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Installation Artist Inspirational Quotes (813)

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And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.
Bruce Nauman
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I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.
Kiki Smith
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Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.
Mel Bochner
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When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great it's not a trendy town.
John Waters
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It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.
Sigmar Polke
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
James Turrell
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history
Judy Chicago
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Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.
Allan Kaprow
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I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
James Turrell
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Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.
John Waters
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I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.
John Waters
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The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.
Takashi Murakami
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Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not necessary. Either you're going to be drawn into it [or not]. It's a black hole gravity should pull you in and you should have that experience.
Leonardo Drew
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
Dan Flavin
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I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.
John Waters
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What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.
Jordan Wolfson
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I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that I've got to do one thing before I die. I did it.
John Waters
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So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
John Waters
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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
Louise Bourgeois
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Potential audiences are real people found in real places.
Suzanne Lacy
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Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesnt necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesnt really tell you what youre looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Olafur Eliasson
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I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
Louise Bourgeois
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