Famous Artists
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Ai Wei Wei
Contemporary Artist and Activist
“We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.”
Shamsia Hassani
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Street Artist
"Art is changing minds and minds change society, not me."
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Olafur Eliasson
Installation Artist
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Marina Abramovic
Performance Artist
"What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance."
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Mark Bradford
Contemporary Artist
"I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way."
Frida Kahlo
Artist
"I am my own muse, the best subject I know."
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Yayoi Kusama
Contemporary Artist
"Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the axe of art."
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Keith Haring
Pop Graffiti Artist
“See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.”
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Shilpa Gupta
Artist
"Sometimes I need to walk far away from where I am to see myself."
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Takashi Murakami
“We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.”
Kara Walker
Contemporary Painter
"To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things."
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Jean - Michel Basquiat
Neo Expressionism Artist
“I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy. I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.”
Käthe Kollwitz
Artist
"I am in the world to change the world."
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JR
Photographer and Street Artist
"I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now."
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Visual Artist
"This is what I’m trying to do with my painting: work within the tradition I inherited but make moves that signal my difference from it."
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Steve McQueen
“I don't know if I'm a filmmaker, I don't know if I'm an artist, everything I know is up in the air, but I do know that I have the possibility to explore, to be reckless and to experiment.”
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Mona Hatoum
Installation Artist
"I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable."