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• To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

  Li Shan

  Heart, People, Chinese

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• In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork.

  Jim Rowe

  Self Esteem, Mystery, Self

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• If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

  George L. Carlson

  Looks, Ends, Know How

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• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Art, Book

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• Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

  Flora Thompson

  Mind, Needs, Quiet

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• There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.

  Jim Steranko

  Book, Past, Vision

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• I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.

  Ali Banisadr

  Letting Go, War, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Destiny, Government, Ideas

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

  Bryan Talbot

  Real, Book, Character

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• I think the artwork is very important because it gives people a visualization of my music. I wanted to create a whole visual aspect, so that the people listening to me can get a better understanding of my universe and integrate it fully into their own worlds.

  Shook

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.atickettosomewhere.com

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• People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.

  Invader

  Should Have, People, Pieces

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• I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art and of creating and let my gallery take care of the more commercial aspects.

  Invader

  Art, Creating, Care

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• I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.

  Dominic Cooper

  Air, Decision, Pieces

  "Exclusive Interview: Dominic Cooper Talks 'Reasonable Doubt'". www.moviesonline.ca. November 16th, 2017.

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• I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Thinking, Talking, Creating

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

  Robert Crumb

  Dollars, Records, Trade

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I'll definitely pay attention to someone who is critiquing the artwork. But as far as someone not thinking street harassment is a big deal or that I'm being uptight? I don't think that's a valid critique.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Thinking, Uptight, Attention

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really wanted to show, and it just became one of those things. I can't stand the hair on my body. I just wanted it gone. It's just a better feeling for me.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Tattoo, Nice, Hair

  "Ryan Sheckler Talks Manscaping". Interview with Lucas Wisenthal, www.askmen.com.

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• Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

  Robert Crumb

  Thinking, People, Reason

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• The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Technology, Digital, Passages

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels"". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.

  Cynthia Daignault

  America, Fiction, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from the hat and be like “Do you see that!” It’s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.

  Laura Owens

  People, Shadow, World

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Thinking, World, Constant

  "Aleksandra Mir Interview: Naming Tokyo". Interview with Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, aleksandramir.info. June 20, 2011.

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• I've had people say to me, "Well, how do I start collecting artworks?" Well, you start by buying. Buy what you like, buy what you can afford - and I'm not just saying that because I'm a dealer. You can't be so paralyzed to where you keep saying, "I've got to learn more." The best way to learn is to go home and actually put something on the wall. Then you've got an investment. Then you're living with it. Then you're in the game.

  Larry Gagosian

  Wall, Home, Games

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Artist, Persons, Ifs

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind.

  David Ogilvy

  Leaving, Tools, Schedules

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.28, Profile Books

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