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Pipilotti Rist

"I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments."

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Pipilotti Rist

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“But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?”
“If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.”
“You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries.”

Source : Song: When the Bartender Cries
“Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.”

Source : 1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.15.
“That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.”
“We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.”
“For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.”
“I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.”

Source : "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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