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"Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?"

"Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?"

Isabel Yosito, American Artist

Love, Moon, Night, Stars

29

"Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them."

"Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them."

Sol LeWitt, American Artist

29

"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."

"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."

Aaron McGruder, American Artist

29

"It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own."

"It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own."

Julian Schnabel, American Artist

Imagination, Time, Art, Work

29

"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."

"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."

Bob Kane, American Artist

29

"I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun."

"I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun."

George Catlin, American Artist

Family, Fathers, Fire, Hunting, Sadness

29

"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."

"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

Work, Values, Garden, Past

29

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Education, Study, Desire, Memory, Learning

29

"The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country."

"The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country."

Ad Reinhardt, American Artist

Art, Country, Job, Now

29

"You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy."

"You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy."

Alva Noto, German Artist

29

"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."

"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."

Jasper Johns, American Artist

Experience, Senses

29

"There are enough no smoking places now."

"There are enough no smoking places now."

David Hockney, English Artist

29

"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"

"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

29

"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

John Berger, English Artist

Nature, Cruelty, Evil, Needs

29

"Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can."

"Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can."

Joe Grant, American Artist

Business, Battle, Giants, Right

29

"Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings."

"Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings."

Joe Shuster, Canadian Artist

29

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Art, Creativity, Originality, Observation

29

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Man, Men, Work, Genius

29

"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today."

"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today."

Marc Davis, American Artist

Career, Disney, Feeling, Name

29

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

Gustave Courbet, French Artist

Life, Art, Hope, Principles

29

"Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period."

"Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period."

Donald Judd, American Artist

Time, Quality, May, Russia

29

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

29

"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."

"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

Creativity, Years

29

"And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League."

"And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League."

Donald Judd, American Artist

29

"And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time."

"And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time."

Gerald Scarfe, British Artist

Time, England, Popular, Right

29

"Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit."

"Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit."

Joe Grant, American Artist

29

"The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant."

"The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant."

John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist

Inspirational, God, Inspiration, Character, Liquor

29

"I have invented the Thermometer style."

"I have invented the Thermometer style."

Josef Albers, German Artist

29

"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."

"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

Art, Development

29

"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."

"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."

Martin Kippenberger, German Artist

Art, Entertainment

29

"Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market."

"Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market."

Marc Davis, American Artist

Money, Banks, Disney, Snow

29

"I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story."

"I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story."

Chris Ware, American Artist

29

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time."

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time."

Frank Miller, American Artist

Time, Blood, Fact, Knight

29

"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."

"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."

Georg Baselitz, German Artist

29

"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."

"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

29

"Pollock looks unusual and radical even now."

"Pollock looks unusual and radical even now."

Donald Judd, American Artist

29

"During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art."

"During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art."

Sol LeWitt, American Artist

Art, Meaning, Words

29

"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."

"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

29

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

Willem de Kooning, American Artist

Business, Fraud, Style

29

"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."

"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."

Joe Shuster, Canadian Artist

Imagination, Beginning, Freedom

29

"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids."

"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids."

Gilbert Hernandez, American Artist

Family, Mother, Father, Being, Eyes

29

"It pleases me that people can be interactive."

"It pleases me that people can be interactive."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

29

"Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk."

"Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk."

Art Spiegelman, American Artist

29

"To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic."

"To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic."

John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist

29

"After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is."

"After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is."

Donald Judd, American Artist

29

"I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd."

"I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd."

Walter Crane, English Artist

Life, Thought, Numbers, Police

29

"On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich."

"On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich."

Josef Albers, German Artist

29

"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think."

"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think."

Robert Henri, American Artist

29

"Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue."

"Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue."

Kelly Millar, American Artist

Virtue, Fault, Self

28

"People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions."

"People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions."

Judy Chicago, American Artist

People, Idea, Feminism, Media

28

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