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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
John Baldessari
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If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.
David LaChapelle
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
Bill Viola
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One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
Tracey Emin
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If you want reality take the bus.
David LaChapelle
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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Nam June Paik
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We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense - is one of the few spaces where we're allowed to look and think without an immediate response or reaction.
Zoe Leonard
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Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.
John Hiatt
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I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.
Carrie Mae Weems
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But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
Richard Serra
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All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.
Tracey Emin
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I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
Zoe Leonard
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...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.
Beat Streuli
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Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)
Martha Rosler
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My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.
Tracey Moffatt
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As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
Christian Marclay
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I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
Richard Serra
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All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.
Tracey Emin
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Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
John Baldessari
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For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.
David LaChapelle
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It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.
Glenn Ligon
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Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
Christian Marclay
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When I know who is speaking, I see that there is a commitment. I need to know there is some commitment. I need to find an author. I can also be polyphonic, fictional, inhabited by a multitude of characters, be right or wrong or at fault or corrupted. But that's more the self than me, me, me. It's problematic. There are times to say w
Pierre Huyghe
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Those of us living in the state of in between have certain advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of being exposed to a new culture and in my case the freedom that comes with living in the USA. The disadvantages of course being that you will never experience again being a center or quite home anywhere.
Shirin Neshat
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