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In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alberto Giacometti

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Lord, James. Giacometti: A Biography. Macmillan, 1997, ch. 44.

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I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo. Letter to his father. Oct. 1512.

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The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo. Sonnet to Vittoria Collana. c. 1525, l. 5.

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The marble not yet carved can hold the form
Of every thought the greatest artist has.

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo. Non ha l' ottimo artista [The Lover and the Sculptor]. c. 1623.

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Michelangelo. "Sonnet 15: The Lover and the Sculptor." Sonnets, translated by Elizabeth Jennings. Routledge, 2002.

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The idea of knowing exactly where you're going is overrated.

Sarah Sze

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Sze, Sarah. "A Million Little Pieces." Interviewed by Andrea K. Scott. The New Yorker, 7 May 2012.

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I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

Claes Oldenburg

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Oldenburg, Claes. Statement for exhibition catalogue called Environments, Situations, Spaces. c. 1961, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.

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If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo. Madrigals. c. 1525.

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Money is not for saving.

Yayoi Kusama

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Kusama, Yayoi. Interviewed by Damien Hirst. Published in the catalogue to accompany Now, an exhibition of Kusama’s work. Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.

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The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.

Auguste Rodin

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Rodin, Auguste and S. K. Star. Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Notebook. Century, 1917, p. 7.

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Painting and sculpture, hard work and fair dealing have been my ruin and things go continually from bad to worse. It would have been better had I been put to making matches in my youth than to be in such a fret!

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo. Letter to Luigi del Riccio. Oct./Nov. 1542.

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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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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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