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Quotes by Artist
"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."
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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
Will,
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"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
6
"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
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"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."
6
"I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience."
6
"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting."
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"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything."
Want,
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"Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
6
"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
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"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
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"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."
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"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes."
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"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer."
6
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
6
"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."
6
"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."
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"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."
Work,
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"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."
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"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted."
6
"While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate."
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"You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that."
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"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."
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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
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"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
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