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As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

— Michael Nesmith

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

— Taylor Momsen

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

— Jim Lee

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

— Damien Hirst

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

— Dana Schutz

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

— Kathleen Hanna

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

— Steven Pinker

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

— Graham Joyce

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

— Yves Tanguy

✗Opposing Perspectives

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

— Jerry Saltz