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Artist Quotes by Sara Baume

8 Artist quotes by Sara Baume

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If you’re curious how Sara Baume frames the life of a creator, these eight lines give a concise window. They’re enough to spark a sense of her tone without overwhelming you, making a quick stop for anyone looking for a taste of her take on artistry.

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“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?”

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“Art, and sadness, which last forever.”

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“How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career…

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“You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still…

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“But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove…

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“There's a table with some catalogues and a guest book in the corner; there are artworks. Today, I need so badly to…

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“I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.”

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“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume…

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“My phone doesn't ring and the doorbell doesn't either and I begin to wonder whether I am still alive.”

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“Only the lighted houses remaining, the lemon blush of their inhabited windows.”

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“Sometimes things happen that give me cause to believe I no longer exist. Car park barriers which do not lift when I drive towards…

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“Why must I test myself? Because no one else will, not anymore. Now that I am no longer a student of any kind, I…

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“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?”

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“We rarely saw each other outside the walls of the gallery, but inside its glaring white spaces, to exorcise the tedium of the tasks…

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“Everything is very nearly over. And so none of the normal rules of behavior apply. And so none of my actions can have consequences.”

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“It happens so seldom; I must catch and keep this slender yearning, a rare beetle in a jam-jar trap. But mustering will is not…

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“Though I am naturally curious about people, I'm also naturally uneasy when they are right in front of me; when I am right in…

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“People don't like it when you say real things.”

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“In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her…

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“Whether or not I want to see him, I do not want him to see me.”

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