"I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work."

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David Shrigley

#Artist Quotes #Trying Quotes #Serious Quotes

“At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic.”
“Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.”
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
“But donâ€™t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, youâ€™ll find yourself with no present to remember.”
“An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.”
“I give dignity second place to expedience.”
“Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.”
“Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.”

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