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“The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.”

Reason Artist Passion Goal Equal Intention Good Work Tenacity Interruptions

Author:Odilon Redon

“One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.”

Knows Needs Artist Intention

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.”

Artist Creativity Creative Intention Reactions Chains Realization Subjective

Book:The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

Source: The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.”

Trying I Can Past Artist Certain Intention Spending Boredom Glances Plague

Author:Philip Guston

“Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.”

Important Artist Process Levels Records Information Intention Visuals Providing Aggression

Author:Leon Golub

“A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.”

Art Artist Intention Propaganda Works Of Art

Author:Susan Sontag