Artwork Quotes - Page 3

• A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Cat, Space

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.479, Bantam

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• It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

  Aron Ralston

  Color, Cameras, Depth

  Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

  Lou Reed

  Art, Reality, Vanity

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• I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

  Pink

  Hands, Video, Want

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• I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

  Yoko Ono

  Creativity, Unfinished Work, Two

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

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• The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Albums, Form, Album Covers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Two, Drawing

  "Eli Broad: Blame My Wife". Interview with Sophie Duvernoy, www.laweekly.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  Paloma Faith

  Art, School, Ideas

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• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Life And Death, Perfect

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• I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

  Jeff Koons

  Germany, Produce

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• Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

  Jeff Koons

  Views, Moments, That Moment

  Interview With David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  Ian MacKaye

  Tape, Letters, Posters

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• I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

  Chris Martin

  Albums

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• It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Art

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• The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.

  Banksy

  Mean, Order, Names

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• With the new game I'm going to be involved from the ground up. I have had story input and the whole thing will have my imprint on it. Even if I don't hands-on do every bit of artwork, I certainly will direct the look of the whole thing.

  Dave Gibbons

  Hands, Games, Looks

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• I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Thinking, Squares

  "Art as a Continuum. Nancy Spero". ART21 Interview, art21.org.

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• I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Beautiful, Men, Artist

  "Ellsworth Kelly: schilderijen en beelden 1963-1979". Exhibition catalogue by Ellsworth Kelly, Barbara Rose, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 'Notes from 1969', 1979.

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• All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

  Gotye

  Dad, Records, Young

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• I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Writing, Diaries, Stories

  "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots". Interview with Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

  Joseph Campbell

  Talking, Energy, Radiance

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.38, New World Library

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• I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.

  Chris Raschka

  Book, Reading, Illustration

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• Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
  concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
  keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
  that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

  Glen David Gold

  Devil, Stories, Calling

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• Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

  Agnes Martin

  Artist, May, Theme

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• I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

  Maya Lin

  Writing, Giving, Trying

  Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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