"Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else."

-- Dennis Oppenheim

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“The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.”
“A Jew is anyone who says he is.”
“Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.”
“You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."”
“I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.”
“Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.”
“When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.”

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