"We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present."

-- Marina Abramovic

#Past Quotes #Littles Quotes #Projects Quotes

“It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.”
“I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.”
“I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.”
“Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.”
“The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.”
“Iâ€™m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If theyâ€™re so good, why donâ€™t they take pictures fullâ€”time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. Theyâ€™re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.”
“Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.”
“Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.”

You may also like:

Ana Mendieta
Artist
Bruce Nauman
Artist
Chris Burden
Artist
Cindy Sherman
Photographer
Joseph Beuys
Artist
Matthew Barney
Artist
Roman Abramovich
Businessman
Vito Acconci
Designer
Robert J. Wilson
Theater Director