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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I often see things after the fact. So there’s a revelatory quality. And this definitely includes a sense of playfulness, because you’re not sure what the consequences are going to be.
Christian Marclay
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There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.
Glenn Ligon
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I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
Bruce Nauman
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Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?
Martha Rosler
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One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.
Camille Henrot
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Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?
Camille Henrot
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I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.
Jack Pierson
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I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.
Michael Snow
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If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.
Tracey Emin
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An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.
Nam June Paik
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I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
David LaChapelle
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Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
Bill Viola
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It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.
Richard Serra
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When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
Bill Viola
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If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
Richard Serra
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With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions when you get older you know how to hide things.
Rineke Dijkstra
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In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
Bruce Nauman
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I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
David LaChapelle
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I want to fall in love with the internet, but I haven't fallen in love with it yet, because I still have not given love on the internet.
Terence Koh
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Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.
Carolee Schneemann
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I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
David LaChapelle
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Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
Martha Rosler
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The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
David LaChapelle
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The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.
Terence Koh
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