Alexander Stoddart famous quotes

Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.
-- Alexander Stoddart

#Grateful #People #Collaboration

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
-- Alexander Stoddart

#Art #Culture #Contemporary

Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.
-- Alexander Stoddart

#Dirty #Bananas #Gallery

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.
-- Alexander Stoddart

#Art #Men #Crowds

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.
-- Alexander Stoddart

#Art #Facts #Kind

Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.

How grateful I am That the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.