Eleanor Antin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Internet is not a place. Itâ€™s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
-- Eleanor Antin

#Black #Information #Void
The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.
-- Eleanor Antin

#Ideas #World #Want
I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.
-- Eleanor Antin

#Enough
Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.
-- Eleanor Antin

#Beautiful #Good Life #Dark
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
-- Eleanor Antin

#Photography #Dubious #Fiction
Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.
-- Eleanor Antin

#Art #Exercise #Government
[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.
-- Eleanor Antin

#New York #Thinking #California
Why should I be limited by my own biography?
-- Eleanor Antin

#Biographies #Should #Should I

People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
People's minds are overloaded with information.
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

Eleanor Antin famous quotes

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