Artwork Quotes

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

  Todd Solondz

  World, Portal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Brain, Littles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Dream, Trying, Landscape

  Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

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• In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Sunset, Divinity

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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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• 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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• The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

  Agnes Martin

  Adventure, House, Joy

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• 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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• All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

  Donald Miller

  Worship, Glory, Invitations

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

  Jodi Picoult

  Time, Grief, School

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• I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

  Florence Welch

  Birthday, Song, Competition

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• My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Interesting, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Two, Three

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• If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.

  Nick Simmons

  Cash, Pay, Stealing

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• I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

  Dan Brown

  Ciphers, Likes, Architecture

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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