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Multimedia Artist Inspirational Quotes (71)

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This is New York. You gotta work from upstairs to downstairs! You gotta work both ends of the street to have a career. Because it's not just fabricating an artwork. Your works have to go out into the world they have to go to market. This art on the hoof has to be moved it's got to go to the slaughterhouse at some point. Keep those dogies rollin'!
Keith Sonnier
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Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.
Victor Burgin
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Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.
Victor Burgin
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Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.
Victor Burgin
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I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.
Sue Tompkins
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Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.
Nam June Paik
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The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
Michael Snow
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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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For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really abstract. It's not totally fulfilling or complete, but rather an ongoing incompleteness. I'm really interested in the audience's relationship with myself, and my relationship with them.
Sue Tompkins
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The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.
Victor Burgin
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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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The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?
Victor Burgin
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There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
Bill Viola
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I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.
Michael Snow
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I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.
Sue Tompkins
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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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Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.
Michael Snow
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The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.
Nam June Paik
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Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.
Valie Export
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I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always the loud one. She's not actually quiet at all, but I would rather fill a gap with chatter and she would just let a gap be. So there was no inclination to actually perform.
Sue Tompkins
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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
Chris Marker
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When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
Chris Marker
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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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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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