"It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product."
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Smith, Karen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bernard Fibicher, and Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei. Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series. London: Phaidon Press, 2009.Ai Weiwei
"I’ve never come out of the box saying I'm an 'industrial artist' or a 'drum and bass artist' or a 'nu-metal artist.' These are all tags that people have put on me."
Klayton
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.
Willa Cather
Bob Ezrin about Waters: "I hate the word "artist," but I would definitely concede that Roger is a great artist...as well as a total obsessive and psychiatrist's dream."
Roger Waters
"Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something."
Ai Weiwei
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.
Harold Rosenberg
Weiwei, Ai
Weldon, Fay
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