Art quotes about work

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«Every work is a proposal for what an artwork can be.»

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«My work has become a simple metaphor of life. A figure walking down his road, making his mark. It is an affirmation of my human scale and senses.»

reference:LONG, Words after the Fact

Richard Serra

«Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.»

Michael Asher

«A work […] generates its own discourse. At a minimum, if affects its own discourse, At a maximum, within artistic practice, it demands the receiver to take a critical position ...»

Donald Judd

«I wanted work that didn`t involve incredible assumptions about everything. I couldn`t begin to think abaout the order of the universe or, the nature of american society.I didn`t want work ...»

Hans Arp

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«We painted embroidered and made collages. All these works were drawn from the simplest forms and were probably the first examples of concrete art. These works are realities pure and ...»

reference:Anna Moszynska, Abstract Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990, p.65reference:Dietmar Elger:Abstrakte Kunst,published in Taschen Verlag,2008

Richard Deacon

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«The question for me is whether resemblance can be detached from objects. That quote about the drawings has to do with trying to work out whether the conjunctions of resemblance, ...»

reference:An Interview with Richard Deacon by Ian Tromp

Mona Hatoum

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«In my work I often take familiar, everyday things and defamiliarize them, reveal their uncanny side. "Keffieh" is a good example of this – the pattern is embroidered on the ...»

reference:"The Idea Is What Matters!" Interview with Mona Hatoum

Roni Horn

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«It started with my name which is not male or female. It seems to me, retrospectively, that my entire identity formed around this, around not being this or that: a ...»

reference:JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Barbara Kruger

«I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work ...»

Lee Krasner

«All my work keeps going like a pendulum.. it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a ...»

Jannis Kounellis

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«The work of a painter is to free something without imposing it, because, if you impose it you've liberated the thing, but not a person. What is crucial for a ...»

reference:Jannis Kounellis, in interview with Carla Lonzi, Marcatré, Rome, 1966, p. 134

Richard Serra

«My work is really very hard to hurt. I mean people sit on it, write on it, piss on it, you really can't hurt it, I mean you can graffiti ...»

Wade Guyton

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«That’s why I don’t draw now and why I use the printer. [laughs] That’s how it started. I was trying to do these stupid marker drawings, something hard-edged and geometric, ...»

reference:Wade Guyton By DAVID ARMSTRONG

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