Artist Quotes - Page 26

• I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Motivation, Believe

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• I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

  Jeff Koons

  Thinking, Like You, Interest

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• People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Years, Long, Kind

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• From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

  John Kricfalusi

  School, Years, Retarded

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• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  Barbara Kruger

  Girl, Gun, Thinking

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• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  Barbara Kruger

  Gossip, Scary, Narrative

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

  Barbara Kruger

  Tactics, Rehabilitation, Addresses

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

  Barbara Kruger

  World, Figures

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• I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

  Barbara Kruger

  Pictures And Words

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• I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

  Barbara Kruger

  Thinking, People, Criticism

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• I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

  Barbara Kruger

  Ideas, Trying, Identity

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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.

  Barbara Kruger

  Technology, Add, Construction

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• If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

  Tony Kushner

  Past, Telling The Truth, Capacity

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• You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Creepy, Strange

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• Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Inspiration, Revolution

  "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'". SVA Commencement Speech, from School of Visual Arts, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

  Tony Kushner

  Possibility

  "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'". SVA Commencement Speech, from School of Visual Arts, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Kind, Starving, Routes

  "Ashton Kutcher On Mila Kunis: ‘I Am Going To Do Everything In My Power To Have This Relationship Be Private’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2013.

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• But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

  Talib Kweli

  Disrespectful, Process

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• Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

  Talib Kweli

  Rapper, Compliment, Conscious

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Jobs, Leader

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• The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

  Talib Kweli

  Jobs, Giving, Fans

  "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.

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• My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Generations, Lineage, My Family

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• Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

  David LaChapelle

  Cameras, Done, Renaissance

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• I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Past, People, Care

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