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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.
Bruce Nauman
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I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].
David LaChapelle
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What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.
Zoe Leonard
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Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as contemporary artists.
Yasumasa Morimura
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I'll finish a body of work and think, Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done. And then you'll turn a corner and be like, Oh my God! And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.
Zoe Leonard
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But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
Richard Serra
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Most of what we see are white people.
Arthur Jafa
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I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.
Zoe Leonard
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I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
David LaChapelle
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I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
David LaChapelle
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I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.
John Hiatt
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I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.
Zoe Leonard
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I combine aspects of fashion, comedy, sculpture, video, painting all kind of in one multimedia sort of curriculum. New York is what gave me that kind of ability or freedom. People come here from all over the world to do something ambitious, and I think New York is really positive in that regard.
Chloe Wise
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I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
David LaChapelle
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The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.
Alexander Kluge
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It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.
Michael Snow
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I was really poor for most of my adult life.
Zoe Leonard
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I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside.
Vito Acconci
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Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one of the things that's a disappointment to me about art is that it's always a memory of something that happened. So I try to get as intimate or as real as possible.
Jack Pierson
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I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.
Rineke Dijkstra
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What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.
Jordan Wolfson
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Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.
Genesis P-Orridge
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Potential audiences are real people found in real places.
Suzanne Lacy
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I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
David LaChapelle
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