Artist Quote by Dennis Oppenheim Download Open image “An artist works through exposed wounds.” — Dennis Oppenheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Exposed Wounds
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.” — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It still is,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.) — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were… — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been. — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
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