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Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings. Charles Ray

Work Art Me Hate Nervous Incredibly Openings Because Makes Always Gets Being Room Full Shown Damaged

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it. Charles Ray

Love Art Considered Never Bought Artwork Even

I've made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium. Charles Ray

Myself Made Medium Lifelong Attempt Involve Deeper

I do a lot of thinking about my work while I'm walking. More in the early morning when I'm trekking in the mountains. When I'm walking in the city, I think more about people around me - my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments. Charles Ray

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make. Charles Ray

Time Long Long Time Take Make Sculptures Many

Work is rich. It can be looked at psychologically or philosophically or personally. The interpretive nature of work is different than the work itself. The interpretation of work isn't the key to understanding it. I'm worried about making a good sculpture. I'm not so worried about the interpretation of it. Charles Ray

Work Good Nature Key Understanding Rich Interpretation Worried Philosophically About Looked Making Itself Than Different Psychologically Personally Sculpture Interpretive

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. Childe Hassam

Art Nature Me Interpretation Eye Makes Brain Impression Which

I'm a very slow reader. Chip Kidd

Slow Reader Very

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period. Chip Kidd

Good Character You People Strong Sometimes Think Assume Medium Teller Kind Period Genre Comics Affecting Frivolous Any Story Literature

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book! Chip Kidd

Work Grateful Book Stream Steady Still Cover

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise. Chip Kidd

If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as they come walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity. Chris Jordan

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. Chris Jordan

Way Photograph Able Loose Crave Painter Paints Expressive

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something. Chris Jordan

Think Out Something Tend Arise Ideas Trying Intentionally Nowhere

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture. Chris Jordan

Culture Think Tremendous Tremendous Amount Hostility American American Culture Amount

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives. Chris Jordan

Work Our Evoke Layers Habits Consumer Feel Toward Between Attraction Discord Bunch Different Repulsion Meant Whole Lives

I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either. Chris Jordan

Myself Too Honors Way Find Both Like Also Lines Walking Trying Artist Either Might Far Activist Stray

I want people to realize that they matter. Chris Jordan

People Matter Want Realize

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us. Chris Jordan

Needs Change Out Public Us Who Each Each One

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy. Chris Jordan

Future People Will Responsibility Our Ourselves Carry More Only More And More Individuals Come Dealing Becoming Still Truly Legacy Families Just Who Billions Aware Profound

My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day. Chris Jordan

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