"You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images."

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Source : "Exclusive Preview and Interview: ‘The Source (evolving),’ Doug Aitken". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2014.

Doug Aitken

“Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.”
“My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.”
“I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same with Smokey Robinson. So they were such a huge influence as a child that to actually sit alongside them and perform on the same bill was an amazing experience for me.”

Source : "Mc Lyte – Current Goal Is to Educate the Next Generation of Hip-hop Leaders". bellephill.com. August 25, 2016.
“Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.”
“There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2011). “Northwest Corner: A Novel”, p.276, Random House
“The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.”
“I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.”
“Pretending is a very valuable life skill.”

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