David Hammons famous quotes

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As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.
-- David Hammons

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As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.
-- David Hammons

#Art #Artist #Reinventing Yourself

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

David Hammons famous quotes

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