Thomas Hirschhorn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.
-- Thomas Hirschhorn

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This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.
-- Thomas Hirschhorn

#Art #Reflection #Goal
Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.
-- Thomas Hirschhorn

#Order #People #Used

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

Thomas Hirschhorn famous quotes

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