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David Walter Galenson (born June 20, 1951) is a professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the American University of Paris. He is the Academic Director of the Center for Creativity Economics, which was inaugurated in 2010 at the Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires.[citation needed]

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Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

Artist, Artists, Changes, Important, Practice, Practices

Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.

Achieve, Artist, Careers, Frustration, Skills

Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

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Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

Artist, Goal, Goals, Incremental, Innovation, Presenting

The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose. . . a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.

Allows, Artist, Goal, Goals, Purpose, Solved

There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.

Artist, Careers, Different, Errors, People, Trial

Artists have made innovations in many areas. . . But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

Artist, Importance, Influence, Innovation, Innovations, Nature

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

Artist, Artists, Collectors, Critics, Curator, Recognition

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

Add, Enough, People, Say, Thinking, Work

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