"I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work. The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots - something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality."

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Ben Quilty

#Dark Quotes #Islands Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I really don't like coke. It's so gross and so dark. It's like, what are you, from the '90s? Ew,”
“Be my wife, all my life.”

Source : Jodi Thomas (2002). “The Texan's Wager”, p.66, Penguin
“You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.”
“Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.”
“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
“The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.”
“In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.”
“The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.”

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