Artist Quotes - Page 39

• The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Art, Vitality, Movement

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• There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

  Matt Smith

  Sacrifice, Discipline, Preparation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

  Patti Smith

  Labels

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• Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

  Patti Smith

  Movie, Stars, Actors

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• I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

  Patti Smith

  Long, Poet, Finest

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• No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

  Patti Smith

  Doe, Facts, Preference

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

  Patti Smith

  Communication, Hollywood, Engagement

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

  Patti Smith

  Work Ethic, Ethics, Models

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• Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Discipline, Hobbies

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• Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Paris, Childhood

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• The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

  Patti Smith

  Giving, Creative, Tools

  "Patti Smith on Art". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.pbs.org. December 30, 2009.

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• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  Zadie Smith

  Reality, Rapper, Penthouses

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• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  Zadie Smith

  Errors, Politician, Scales

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• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Rap, Ghetto

  "We are family". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2005.

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• Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

  Robert Smithson

  Zero, Abstraction

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

  Robert Smithson

  National Parks, Nostalgia, Bliss

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Faster, Explosives

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

  Robert Smithson

  Fit, Categories, Expected

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

  Robert Smithson

  New York, Cities, Skylines

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Direct Effect, Elements

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Ongoing, Landscape

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

  Robert Smithson

  Museums, Matter, Void

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Social, Force

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• There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

  Wole Soyinka

  Wish, Different, Kind

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• I was more than just a moody artist.

  Rick Springfield

  Moody

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