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Artist Inspirational Quotes (14504)

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As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.
Anselm Kiefer
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My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.
Jamie Oliver
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Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
Hans Hofmann
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I believe in empty spaces they're the most wonderful thing.
Anselm Kiefer
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When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
Anselm Kiefer
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I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.
Anselm Kiefer
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I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.
Keri Hilson
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But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Anselm Kiefer
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I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.
Maurice Sendak
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
Salvador Dali
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Drawing and composition are the same thing.
John French Sloan
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You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going.
Dorian Corey
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I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.
Kanye West
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It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.
Martha Graham
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A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
Anni Albers
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When I'm out the country, niggas call me Neeki. Hi, how are you? Yes, it's nice to meet me.
Nicki Minaj
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This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.
John F. Carlson
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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
Josef Albers
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I don't think about myself very much.
Manolo Blahnik
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Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.
Thomas Heatherwick
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it
Matthew Barney
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I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.
Anne Truitt
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I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
Anne Truitt
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