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I want to make work so people can be moved by a sense of the possible.

Zhang Huan

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Huan, Zheng. "Interview with Zhang Huan." Interviewed by Roselee Goldberg. Pilgrimage to Santiago, 2000.

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Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here?

Maya Lin

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Lin, Maya. Interviewed by Rebecca Gross. NEA Arts Magazine, no. 4, 2011, www.arts.gov/stories/magazine/2011/4/what-innovation/maya-lin

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I obey Nature, and never do I dare give orders to it. My only ambition is servile fidelity to it.

Auguste Rodin

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Rodin, Auguste. Interviewed by Paul Gsell. La Revenue, 1910.

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Rodin, Auguste. Quoted in Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell, written by Paul Gsell. University of California Press, 1984.

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A hint-don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! Study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God-to create like our Divine Master.

Paul Gauguin

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Gauguin, Paul. Letter to Emile Schuffenecker. 14 Aug. 1888.

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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

David Hockney

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Hockney, David. The Guardian. 26 Oct. 1988.

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trouble and depressing subject matter. An art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

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Liberman, Alexander. The Artist in His Studio. The Viking Press, 1960.

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse II." 11 Dec. 1769, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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The erotic or the sexual is the root of "art"; its first impulse.

Claes Oldenburg

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Oldenburg, Claes and Germano Celant. Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology. Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1995, p. 13.

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Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow.

Jean Arp

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Arp, Jean. Arp on Arp: Poems, Essays, Memories, edited by Marcel Jean. Viking Press, 1972, p. 327.

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To trust your intuition is exactly the opposite of any sort of formal education.

Chris Burden

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Burden, Chris. Failure: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Lisa Le Feuvre. MIT Press, 2010. Originally spoken during an interview with John Bewley, c. 2010.

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Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Paul Klee

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Klee, Paul. Quoted in Klee, written by Susanna Partsch. Taschen, 2015. Originally a diary entry, 16 Apr. 1914.

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In order to approach the spiritual in art, one employs reality as little as possible... This explains logically why primary forms are employed. Since these forms are abstract, an abstract art comes into being.

Piet Mondrian

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Mondrian, Piet. Sketchbook II. c. 1914.

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Learning that color is a fiction of light is one of the primary shocks of growing up: that this hitherto deeply physical thing is just a reflection and that nothing can keep its color under the cover of darkness, are monstrous things to understand, even for my adult mind.

Tacita Dean

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Dean, Tacita. Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by David Batchelor. MIT Press, 2008, p. 235.

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Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people.

Keith Haring

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Haring, Keith. Journal entry. 7 July 1986.

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Fine art can only be defined as exclusive, negative, absolute and timeless. It is not practical, useful, related, applicable, or subservient to anything else.