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Video Artist Inspirational Quotes (478)

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I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
Christian Marclay
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There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.
Bill Viola
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The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.
Camille Henrot
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I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.
Zoe Leonard
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You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.
Zoe Leonard
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The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.
Jordan Wolfson
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Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, I don't like this painting. But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, Actually, that's not so bad.
Rebecca Horn
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Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
Richard Serra
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There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.
Vito Acconci
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When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
Michael Snow
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I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorpio talking, but everything feels more intense than before. I'll probably keep doing what I'm doing and shift gears if something comes along. I'm pretty fluid.
Mark Bradford
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My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.
Glenn Ligon
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People try constantly to use me and I hate it.
Tracey Emin
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New York is like traveling without actually moving.
Pierre Huyghe
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I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.
Tracey Emin
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The idea that recording itself is an instrument.
Michael Snow
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I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
Bill Viola
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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
David LaChapelle
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In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.
Chloe Wise
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I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill
Kara Walker
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Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.
John Baldessari
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We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.
Sophie Ristelhueber
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Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.
Richard Serra
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Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.
John Baldessari
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