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Textile Artist Inspirational Quotes (36)

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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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[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.
Annette Messager
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I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.
Annette Messager
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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
Annette Messager
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I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.
Nancy Crow
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
Faith Ringgold
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It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
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I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.
Eva Hesse
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My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.
Faith Ringgold
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I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
Faith Ringgold
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What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.
Eva Hesse
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[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.
Annette Messager
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Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichés of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.
Annette Messager
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Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.
Eva Hesse
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Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.
Annette Messager
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Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Anni Albers
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In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.
Eva Hesse
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I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here. Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.
Faith Ringgold
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Faith Ringgold
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I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight... In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.
Annette Messager
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First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
Eva Hesse
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My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
Eva Hesse
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I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
Faith Ringgold
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