Gavin Turk Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.”
-- Gavin Turk

#Art #College #Thinking
“Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.”
-- Gavin Turk

#Artist #Two #Important
“The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.”
-- Gavin Turk

#Artist #Signatures #Painting
“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.”
-- Gavin Turk

#Artist #College #Found Objects
“Vintage was brilliant!”
-- Gavin Turk

#Vintage #Brilliant

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