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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.
Yasumasa Morimura
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Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.
Camille Henrot
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I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
Arthur Jafa
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I try to make each film a different film.
Michael Snow
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One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is that I try to make things that don't read as art until they're in a gallery.
Jack Pierson
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Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
Christian Marclay
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The soul will always do what it needs to do.
Tracey Emin
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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
David LaChapelle
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To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
Arthur Jafa
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I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.
Zoe Leonard
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I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.
Rineke Dijkstra
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You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.
Alexander Kluge
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The night is there, we're trying to ignore the night, the night was always there as children.
Michal Rovner
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Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.
Shirin Neshat
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Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.
Camille Henrot
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I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.
Isa Genzken
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I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
Carrie Mae Weems
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The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
Richard Serra
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And when in doubt, be extreme.
Genesis P-Orridge
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I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.
Rineke Dijkstra
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We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the same thing, I used a lot of devices to catch the eye of people who have seen a lot of stuff, having worked in advertising and in editorial. I have learned to get someone to stop and look at something, that language.
David LaChapelle
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We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!
David LaChapelle
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I extol life so much that I cannot make art.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things.
Mark Bradford
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