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AA Bronson
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“I’m as fearless as I ever was”
Ai Weiwei
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“The power designs itself to crush you”
Albert Watson
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“You never get that day back”
Alex Prager
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“The idea is more important than anything”
Allen Jones
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“There’s nothing you can do”
Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg
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“It’s a personal quest”
André Saraiva
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“The night is not a time, it's a place”
Andro Wekua
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“This is much more vulnerable”
Anish Kapoor
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“I have nothing to say”
Anne Imhof
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“You get bolder over time”
Anton Corbijn
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“My life is crazy, but it’s real love”
Axel Vervoordt
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“I like evolution, not revolution”
Barry Blitt
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“A joke cuts through everything”
Brigitte Lacombe
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“My entire life has been my work”
Carla Sozzani
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“You need generosity to do this”
Catherine Wood
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“How can we inhabit the image?”
Chiharu Shiota
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“The fear is necessary”
Christo
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“It’s not a profession, it’s existence”
Christoph Niemann
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“I don’t need a big idea”
Claudia Comte
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“It’s never-ending once you start”
Coco Capitán
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“We have gone to the other extreme”
Cosey Fanni Tutti
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“It’s like a metamorphosis”
Daniel Arsham
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“It can take years to get there”
David Bailey
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“How are you going to cross the road?”
David Doubilet
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“My favorite picture is the one I haven’t taken”
David LaChapelle
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“Everything was dramatic”
David Shrigley
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“There is room for everything”
Dominique Lévy
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“You need to constantly refill”
Douglas Gordon
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“You pull yourself up and you push it out”
Ebecho Muslimova
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“Making art is not a pleasant feeling”
Elizabeth Peyton
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“History is contained within people”
Elmgreen & Dragset
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“It’s time to change”
Erik Spiekermann
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“A good concept will survive forever”
Erwin Wurm
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“It only exists at this one time”
Fabien Baron
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“We’ve just seen the beginning”
Francesco Clemente
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“Making art is to time-travel”
Futura
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“Artists have got to stop compromising”
Gab Bois
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“If it’s yours, it’ll come”
Gabriel Massan
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“Anything is possible”
Gabriel Orozco
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“I try to be disappointing”
Gaetano Pesce
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“The future is a beautiful time”
Gary Simmons
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“You want to create questions”
Georg Baselitz
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“The good things will never cause anyone to look”
Gilbert & George
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“We don’t do art for the few”
Gunner Stahl
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“You can tell if it’s real or not”
Hajime Sorayama
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“Creating is my freedom”
Hans Ulrich Obrist
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“I believe in generosity as a medium”
Harry Benson
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“I’m keeping their image alive”
Helen Cammock
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“I want to change whose stories are heard”
Ini Archibong
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“I have to stay spiritually in tune”
Joel Meyerowitz
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“You have to let go of something”
JR
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“No one can own it”
Judy Chicago
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“Get used to it!”
Juergen Teller
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“You know when the work is good”
Julia Peyton-Jones
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“You need that virtuous circle”
Julian Schnabel
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“I never thought of art as a career”
Katharina Grosse
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“I don’t see limits”
Kiki Smith
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“I just try to follow it”
Larry Clark
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“Why can’t you show everything?”
Lawrence Weiner
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“There’s no secret in words”
Leo Villareal
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“There’s no agenda”
Liza Lou
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“Survival is at the core of it”
Marco Brambilla
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“There’s too much going on”
Marina Abramović
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“I've always been a soldier”
Mark Seliger
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“Let’s do something special”
Mark Wallinger
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“A perfect mirror throws back everything”
Martin Parr
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“I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind”
Martin Schoeller
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“I don’t think you can capture a soul”
Maurizio Cattelan
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“Show them life”
Mel Ramos
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“Why not be naked in public?”
Michel Comte
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“We need to listen to nature”
Mick Rock
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“I blame the name”
Milton Glaser
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“We’re all in it together”
Mona Hatoum
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“It’s about shattering the familiar”
Mr. Brainwash
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“If I believe it, it’s art for me”
Nick Knight
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“I commit with my heart and soul”
Norman Jean Roy
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“The camera used to carry this mystique”
Olafur Eliasson
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“Things go wrong and we celebrate it”
Pat Steir
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“I avoid struggle”
Pete Souza
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“You’re doing it every day, all day”
Peter Blake
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“I’ll never have to fall off the mountain”
Peter Lindbergh
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“Beauty has nothing to do with youth”
Peter Saville
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“I never had to answer to anyone”
Petra Collins
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“I know what it’s like to be there”
Rachel Whiteread
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“I can let anything happen”
Ragnar Kjartansson
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“I know how to hide my tracks”
Ralph Steadman
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“The line becomes more aggressive”
Rashid Johnson
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“I can do this?”
Richard Deacon
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“A stop, but not a finish”
Rita Ackermann
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“Nothingness is such a vast concept”
Robert Longo
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“I went back to the beginning”
Robert Montgomery
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“I tend to like the pathetic”
Robert Polidori
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“Why is there a line?”
Robert Wilson
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“It’s okay to get lost”
Roni Horn
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“There’s nothing until there’s something”
Rose Wylie
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“If it works, it works”
Ryan Gander
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“It wants your attention”
Ryan McGinley
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“I am just so fascinated by the body”
Saad Moosajee
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“You have to resonate with it”
Sarah Morris
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“There is no outside”
Sarah Sze
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“How do we breathe life into objects?”
Sean Scully
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“The poet was always in me”
Shirin Neshat
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“You can’t demystify a myth”
Simon Starling
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“The practice has its own momentum”
Space Invader
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“You own the city”
Stefan Sagmeister
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“Function alone is not doing it”
Steve McCurry
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“It’s like hitting a drum”
Steve McQueen
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“It’s about what’s right, not what fits”
Steve Schapiro
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“It’s a question of how you see it”
Tara Donovan
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“I don’t map it at all”
Thaddaeus Ropac
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“People are hungry for new art”
Thomas Demand
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“Aesthetics are inevitable”
Thomas Hirschhorn
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“It is an emancipatory gesture”
Thomas Hoepker
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“No rehearsal, just one click”
Thomas Joshua Cooper
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“Preparation is all you can do”
Thomas Struth
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“Now you've made it”
Tom Sachs
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“Consumerism was a ritual”
Trevor Paglen
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“Your job is to learn how to see”
Vanessa Beecroft
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“I’m repulsed by pop culture”
Willo Perron
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“I never wanted to be very singular”
Yngve Holen
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“You can get what you want out of it”
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