Quotes by Artists

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. Maurice Sendak
Death Art Me Distinctions Bore Fine Fine Art
I'm totally crazy, I know that. Maurice Sendak
Crazy Totally Know
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. Maurice Sendak
World Old Parents Were Ignorant Old World Peasants
My work is not great, but it's respectable. Maurice Sendak
Work Great Respectable
As a kid, all I thought about was death. Maurice Sendak
Death Thought Kid About
I cry a lot because I miss people. Maurice Sendak
People Miss Cry Because Lot
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. Maurice Sendak
Money Power Kind Pocket Without Escape Child Any Being Want Mean Creature Routes
I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. Maurice Sendak
Remember Would See Small Detested Remain Taken Idea Boy How How Much Version Anybody Want Mean Sentimental Much Peter Peter Pan Pan
I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels. Maurice Sendak
Angels Adore Obsessed
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. Maurice de Vlaminck
Generation People Painting Every Damn Other Must About Give Materials Get Hands Hands-On Again Start
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin. Maurizio Cattelan
Humour Sides Point Point Of View Tragedy Irony Same View Include Two Coin
There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern. Maurizio Cattelan
Focus Scandalous Major Concern Issues Provocative Times Being Help Bring
Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It's a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems. Maurizio Cattelan
Art Good History You Perspective Will Feelings Past Further Bad About Seems More Remain Longer Understand Concrete Question Get Trying Forgetting Which Good And Bad Acts Plausible Last Symbols
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions. Maurizio Cattelan
Laughter Imagination Strike Visceral Enter Trigger Direct Direct Contact Horse Unconscious Contact Reactions
Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities. Maurizio Cattelan
Sad Animals Humorous Scary Stuffed Qualities Tragic
I would describe myself as a tallish, shy, middle-aged man who equally loves his work and his freedom. And a good liar! Maurizio Cattelan
Work Myself Good Freedom Man Liar Would Equally His Middle-Aged Middle-Aged Man Loves Who Describe Shy
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way. Maurizio Cattelan
Beautiful Harmless Way Extremely Disturbing Something Idea Device Employing Am Convey Apparently Fascinated Images
What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense. Maurizio Cattelan
Life Sense Our Everything Seems Point Absurd Until Makes Die Then
It's not my job to tell people what a work means. Maurizio Cattelan
Work People Job Tell Means
Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events. Maurizio Cattelan
Music Art Events Achieve Will Big Think Television Possible Area Never Football Contemporary Contemporary Art Audience Stop Influence Pop Should Pop Music Comparing
I am not an artist. Maurizio Cattelan
Am Artist
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable. Maurizio Cattelan
Mind Interviews Carried Only Sharp Between Most His Lines Meanings Fully Now
I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die. Maurizio Cattelan
Death Fear Comedy Laughter Animals Think Related Must Only Fact Know Reaction Linked Closely Die Quintessential Human Who
I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked. Maurizio Cattelan
Morning Dedication Everything Horror Between Half-Baked Bed Equivalent Up Get Inaccurate Bring Night
Damien Hirst knows how to drive super-fast cars... I love my bicycle. Maurizio Cattelan
Love Car Drive Bicycle Knows How
I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them. Maurizio Cattelan
Buy Jealous Great You Happy Energy Think Colleagues Been Decided Them Should Works Save
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