December 19, 2011
"I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand… I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that’s what we all are trying to do."

— Maurizio Cattelan

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November 22, 2011
"I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists."

— Marcel Duchamp

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October 12, 2011
"Art is the highest form of hope."

— Gerhard Richter

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September 20, 2011
"De Kooning is my main man, really, because he just did everything you can do with paint. He reversed it, dripped it, scraped it. But I want to hold on to a certain amount of reality."

— Jenny Saville

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August 16, 2011
"I’m not saying that I don’t think about business, but a good businessperson probably doesn’t try to sell cut out buttholes hanging on expensive rods."

— Matthew Ronay

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July 15, 2011
"I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that’s part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it’s dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?"

— Cy Twombly

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May 17, 2011
"I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising."

— Jeff Koons 

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May 16, 2011
"Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction."

— John Chamberlain

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April 14, 2011
"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."

— Banksy

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March 28, 2011
"I painted boredom, which is more important in life than the sunlight the Impressionists painted."

— Yayoi Kusama

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February 16, 2011
"Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists."

— Willem de Kooning

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