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Nutella
$2,500
Haybail Field, 2004
$1,200
Untitled
$4,500
Circle
$2,100
Nursery
$1,170
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Artists on Art
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| Unless stated differently, all texts in this section are taken from Artists on Art, XIV to XX century by Robert Goldwater & Marco Treves and from the Twentieth Century Vol. by Dore Ashton |
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| Ansel Adams - 1902 - 1984 |
| A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept. (more) |
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| Francis Bacon - 1909 - 1992 |
| The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness (more) |
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| Constantin Brancusi - 1876 - 1957 |
| Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. Glory doesn't give a damn about us when we run after her, but when we turn our back on her, it is she that runs after us. (more) |
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| Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903 |
| I have always said, or at least thought, that literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. (more) |
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| Alberto Giacometti - 1901 - 1966 |
| Art and science mean trying to understand. Failure or success plays a secondary role. (more) |
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| Eva Hesse - 1936-1970 |
| I have learned anything is possible. I know that. that vision or concept will come through total risk, freedom, discipline. I will do it. (more) |
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| Willem de Kooning 1904 - 1997 |
| Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity.I do not think of inside or outside - or of art in general - as a situation of comfort. (more) |
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| Richard Long 1945 - |
| I My work is real, not illusory or conceptual.It is about real stones, real time, real actions. (more) |
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| Kasimir Malevich 1878 - 1935 |
| Under Suprematism I understand the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningles... (more) |
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| Henri Matisse 1869 - 1954 |
| What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject-matter, an art that might be for every mental worker….., like an appeasing influence, …..something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. (more) |
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| Ana Mendieta 1948 - 1985 |
| I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (more) |
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| Giorgia O'Keeffe 1887 -1986 |
| ...I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at...not copy it.. (more) |
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| Claes Oldenburg - 1929 - |
| My work makes a great demand on a collector. I have tried to make it in every way so that anyone who comes into contact with it is greatly inconvenienced. (more) |
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| Dennis Oppenheim - 1938 - |
| I think it should be an intelligent, endowed, inspired attempt to make the art more than you are... Certainly make the art rise. Find out how to make the art better than you are. Better meaning elevated. Become bigger than. (more) |
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