"I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying, "Did you really intend for these things to be so dumb? You just put it there and took a picture of it." He wouldn't let it go. So that's what made me think about the dumbness aspect more."

-- Laurie Simmons

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes.”

Source : Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group
“Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.”

Source : James Robertson (2010). “And the Land Lay Still”, p.23, Penguin UK
“Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.”

Source : Interview with Ray Pride, moviecitynews.com. October 28, 2005.
“Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.”
“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”

Source : "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.
“I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.”
“Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.”
“TV is not a baby sitter.”

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