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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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In shows where the audience wants to try to understand the work, the work is placed in a space of possibility where it becomes a subject of inquiry rather than being subject to conclusive interpretations. This is the gift I receive when I go abroad.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes sort of frightening. I guess that's how I see things, in that form of duality.
Shirin Neshat
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Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful.
Zoe Leonard
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Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.
Jan Peacock
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At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.
Beat Streuli
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A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.
Kara Walker
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It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
Christian Marclay
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I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
Jordan Wolfson
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I liked the idea of architectural games - you're always building and rebuilding. And I still thought of myself in opposition. I thought, If architects build a dream house, then I want to build a bad-dream house. My piece was called Bad Dream House.
Vito Acconci
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I said to myself, If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one.
Glenn Ligon
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If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.
Orlan
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Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper Johns was how important it is to start with a convention, how important it is to start with what everybody knows and everybody takes for granted, whether it's a number, an alphabet letter, a set of alphabet letters, a target.
Vito Acconci
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Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?
Martha Rosler
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I will not make anymore boring art.
John Baldessari
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Nature has the most powerfully healing effect.
Shirin Neshat
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I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
Richard Serra
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There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?
David LaChapelle
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If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
Kara Walker
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[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.
Vito Acconci
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I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.
David LaChapelle
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Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.
John Baldessari
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I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.
Zoe Leonard
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We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?
Michal Rovner
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Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books, little things. I can make my own zines, but it just helps if you've got somebody behind you publishing things.
Jack Pierson
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