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I am an artist and a potter and this is my inspirational contemporary art page. Enjoy!

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"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close

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Jorge Tacla.

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Franz West

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/franz-west

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Albert Oehlen

http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/albert_oehlen.htm

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"Craft, as you may know, comes from the German word Kraft, meaning power or strength. As Emerson said, the law is: "Do the things and you shall have the power. But they who do not the things, have not the powers." we can't fake craft. It lies in the act. The strains we have put in the clay break open in the fire. We do not have the craft, or craftsmanship, if we do not speak to the light that lives within the earthly materials; this means ALL earthly materials, including men themselves."

"It took me seven years before I could, with certainty, center any given piece of clay. Another person might center the clay the first time he sat down to it. His task then might be to allow the centered clay to live into a form which it would itself declare. My task was to learn how to bring in the flying images, how to keep from falling in love with a mistake, how to bring the images in, down, up, smoothly, centered, and then to allow them the kind of breath they cannot have if all they know how to be passionate or repressed."

M.C. Richards "Centring in Pottery, Poetry abn the Person"

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Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.

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Charles Avery - a Scottish artist who since 2004 has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of an imaginary island.

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Alexander Biserama Bicherer

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One of my favorite sculptors - John Grade

http://www.johngrade.com/

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Human art intervention by Austria-based artist Cie. Willi Dorner in collaboration with photographer Lisa Rastl. By placing the bodies in selected spots the artist provokes a thinking process and irritation by the passers and the viewers.

http://www.ciewdorner.at

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Nava Lubelski - "My work explores the contradictions between the impulse to destroy and the compulsion to mend. I juxtapose rapid acts of destruction, such as spilling and cutting, with painstaking, restorative labor."

http://www.navalubelski.com

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Juliana Santacruz Herrera

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Sue Hotchkis - fibre artist

http://www.suehotchkis.com/

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Ursula Commandeur

http://www.uc-keramik.de/

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Ernesto Neto (Brazilian, b.1964) is a contemporary visual artist known for creating vast sculptures out of white stocking-like material that he fills with various items, such as Styrofoam or scented spices. His inspiration comes from the Brazilian Neoconcretism movement that was prevalent in the late 1950s, and his installations often fill the entire exhibition area.

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Andy Goldsworthy

is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.

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Jessica Wohl, 2011, Hairy StaircaseSynthatic hair, fabric and steel installed in the abondoned Mountainaire Hotel, Hot Sprongs, Arkansas