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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
Alexander Kluge
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Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
Alexander Kluge
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I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.
John Hiatt
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In some parts of the world, you get scrutinized for saying the wrong thing about art and in other regions, you get scrutinized for saying nothing at all.
Isa Genzken
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Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.
Camille Henrot
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People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.
Christian Marclay
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I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.
Bruce Nauman
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Every human being is a work of art.
Wolf Vostell
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Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.
Yasumasa Morimura
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The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling contemporary artists.
Yasumasa Morimura
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To think about oblivion is to think about what art is.
Yasumasa Morimura
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Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion. This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.
Yasumasa Morimura
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I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.
Yasumasa Morimura
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I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of oblivion and who consider placing themselves into the world of oblivion as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.
Yasumasa Morimura
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This is why there is not any artist who takes Internet as the theme. My position is quite the opposite to the current trend of art, but this is exactly why the title of my exhibition is ART Fahrenheit 451.
Yasumasa Morimura
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I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents of each chapter came first or the artist came first in making the decision was different in each case.
Yasumasa Morimura
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Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.
Yasumasa Morimura
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Triennale in the City is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is an important mission for the local community, and, therefore, the attitude to achieve this mission through the cultural and/or artistic activities should not be denied.
Yasumasa Morimura
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Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.
Yasumasa Morimura
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Art is basically entertainment.
Yasumasa Morimura
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I have always thought that it would be nice to not complete the exhibition in one place and close off the others as a result. Exhibitions should connect with various locations and promote exchange and interaction.
Yasumasa Morimura
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I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, Are these guys kidding? They've got to be kidding! But they're not and that in itself is what makes them good.
Chris Cunningham
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There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.
Orlan
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