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JR

JR“No one can own it”

Futura

Futura“Artists have got to stop compromising”

Elmgreen & Dragset

Elmgreen & Dragset“It’s time to change”

Rita Ackermann

Rita Ackermann“Nothingness is such a vast concept”

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei“The power designs itself to crush you”

Ini Archibong

Ini Archibong“I have to stay spiritually in tune”

Daniel Arsham

Daniel Arsham“It can take years to get there”

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz“The good things will never cause anyone to look”

Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft“I’m repulsed by pop culture”

AA Bronson

AA Bronson“I’m as fearless as I ever was”

Coco Capitán

Coco Capitán“We have gone to the other extreme”

Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente“Making art is to time-travel”

Petra Collins

Petra Collins“I know what it’s like to be there”

Thomas Joshua Cooper

Thomas Joshua Cooper“Preparation is all you can do”

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan“I don’t map it at all”

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson“Things go wrong and we celebrate it”

Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander“It wants your attention”

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser“We’re all in it together”

Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon“You pull yourself up and you push it out”

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse“I don’t see limits”

Yngve Holen

Yngve Holen“You can get what you want out of it”

Roni Horn

Roni Horn“There’s nothing until there’s something”

Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson“I can do this?”

Allen Jones

Allen Jones“There’s nothing you can do”

Liza Lou

Liza Lou“Survival is at the core of it”

Gabriel Massan

Gabriel Massan“Anything is possible”

Saad Moosajee

Saad Moosajee“You have to resonate with it”

Ebecho Muslimova

Ebecho Muslimova“Making art is not a pleasant feeling”

Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat“You can’t demystify a myth”

Christoph Niemann

Christoph Niemann“I don’t need a big idea”

Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen“Your job is to learn how to see”

Gaetano Pesce

Gaetano Pesce“The future is a beautiful time”

Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs“Consumerism was a ritual”

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister“Function alone is not doing it”

Sean Scully

Sean Scully“The poet was always in me”

Gary Simmons

Gary Simmons“You want to create questions”

Hajime Sorayama

Hajime Sorayama“Creating is my freedom”

Pat Steir

Pat Steir“I avoid struggle”

Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti“It’s like a metamorphosis”

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner“There’s no secret in words”

Andro Wekua

Andro Wekua“This is much more vulnerable”

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread“I can let anything happen”

Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm“It only exists at this one time”

Rose Wylie

Rose Wylie“If it works, it works”