Harry Callahan Quotes
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.
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For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.
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I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
