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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
Orlan
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When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
Bruce Nauman
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The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this time. Ten years ago, my work wouldn't have had any currency, any popularity at all. Before in this country, you had to be accepted. You had to be part of the group. Now it's probably more trendy to have a problem.
Tracey Emin
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It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.
Vito Acconci
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We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
Alexander Kluge
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It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me
Tracey Emin
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For me, now, feminist art must show a consciousness of women's social and economic position in the world. I also believe it demonstrates forms and perceptions that are drawn from a sense of spiritual kinship between women.
Suzanne Lacy
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I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.
Carolee Schneemann
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I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
Carrie Mae Weems
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Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.
Camille Henrot
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I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.
Tracey Emin
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Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
Richard Serra
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Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
Holger Czukay
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You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.
Rebecca Horn
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Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.
Cory Arcangel
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I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.
Michael Snow
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I feel like each time I do something I want it to be more and more recognizable that it's me so, by the time I do a film, my films will be as recognizable as someone like David Lynch or someone who's got their own thing going on.
Chris Cunningham
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Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.
David LaChapelle
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Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.
Richard Serra
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I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.
Bill Viola
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I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. [...] And also I'm monogamous.
Tracey Emin
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Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
Richard Serra
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Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.
Michael Snow
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