Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that. I like the idea that if you make a work that has no clear ending, then you must play with the ending. Because if you don't, you're not highlighting the weird, lovely openness of abstraction.

Amy Sillman's Popular Quotes

At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on …

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That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

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Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No c…

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All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

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A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upsi…

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In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have t…

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Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

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It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

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I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not …

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