Damien Hirst
“I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. I’ve found out there aren’t any. I wanted to be stopped but no one will stop me”
Jenny Holzer
“You are a victim of the rules you live by”
Jackson Pollock
“Art is coming face to face with yourself”
Banksy
“He’s anonymous in an age when it’s almost impossible to be anonymous”
Ai Weiwei
“When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking”
Basquiat
“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”
Futura 200
“The transition from the street and the subway to the gallery is a very difficult one, how do you justify the content of your work now that it’s in a gallery?”
Keith Haring
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further”
Goldie
“There is no turning black the clock. So the question in life becomes: what are you going to do while you’re here?”
3d
“Take back control”
Mr Brainwash
“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation”
Mark Bradford
“The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter”
Jack Torrance
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
James Turrell
“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation”
“The most interesting art to me is always kind of a critique of the culture”
“When Tony mentioned to me the Dadaist proposition of a book with a sandpaper cover that violently damaged your other books, I thought, ‘Yes, that’s a powerful, iconoclastic gesture.’ And I also saw how it could be transposed or transported to the format of a record cover”
“I’ve never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist. The way I make art – the way a lot of people make art – is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.”
“He had a little bit of everything. He had a streak of juvenile delinquency, a streak of compassion. The sad part is he dealt with a lot of pain in his life.”
“I enjoy playing with common situations and presenting them in an ambiguous and uncomfortable way”
“People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning”.
Mark Leckey
Licthenstein