5001 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. Barbara Kruger

Money Starts Our Rumors Complicity About Triumphs Talks Tragedies Social Speaks Lives Careers

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different. Barbara Kruger

Work Change World Space Changes Ways Seem Idea Like Messages Familiar Getting Different Across Connect Now Right Things

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not. Barbara Kruger

Political Political Power Power Like Terms Sounds Up Personal Bring

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 very modestly with eloquently moving results. Barbara Kruger

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. Barbara Kruger

Work Medium Address Consistent Has-Been Direct Tactic Been Regardless Working

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. Barbara Kruger

Work Me People Opportunity Space Relatively Drawn Window Attention Attention Spans Like Lot Shoot Short Want Spans

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. Barbara Kruger

History Book Events Every Think Statement Circumstances Follows Rendition History Book Author So-Called Should Film Biography

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. Barbara Kruger

Work Art Design Ways Visual Parted Although Content Practices Art Work Formal Regards Informed Meaning Level Two

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. Barbara Kruger

Art Experience World Whatever Musical Kind Visual About Something Making Commentary Textual Transforming Mean Creates Your Moments Flow

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. Barbara Kruger

Art School Like Art School Teaching University

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film. Barbara Kruger

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. Barbara Kruger

Work Writing Words Criticism Single Separation Think Say Those Visual Pictures Terms Make Practices Always Doing Any Artist Cloth Different Whether Aspects Teaching Who Works Activity

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job. Barbara Kruger

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. Barnett Newman

Speak Leave Prefer Themselves Paintings

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. Barry McGee

Would Embrace Something Like Parts Still Really Museum

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. Barry McGee

Art Three Drawings Academia Pillars Sculptures Paintings

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers. Barry McGee

Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion. Barry McGee

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom. Barry McGee

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