Artist Quotes/Quotes on Art

"Art is never finished, only abandoned" - Leonardo Da Vinci
I've read that he had a reputation for that.

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“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
— Chuck Close
 
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"Images also help me find and realize ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people’s plates."
-Francis Bacon
 
"Not yours, but 85% of the art that is written about is way over-priced. Not yours. 0.01% of all artists are dominating 99.99% of our coverage. This is a world Koyaanisqatsi- out of balance. The Whitney Museum was bought for... one Koons."

-Jerry Saltz
 
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