Richard Artschwager quotes

“My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.”
-- Richard Artschwager

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“There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.”
-- Richard Artschwager

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“I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.”
-- Richard Artschwager

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“Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.”
-- Richard Artschwager

Source : Richard Artschwager, Dieter Schwarz (2003). “Richard Artschwager: texts and interviews”, Richter Verlag

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“I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.”
-- Richard Artschwager

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“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”

“My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear”

“Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.”

“It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.”

Source : "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

“We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.”

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

“When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.”

“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”