Tom Wesselmann quotes
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“The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.”
-- Tom WesselmannSource : Sam Hunter, Tom Wesselmann (1994). “Tom Wesselmann”, Rizzoli International Publications
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“Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.”
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“I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.”
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“I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.”
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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
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“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press
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“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
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“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”
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“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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