"The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit."

-- Paul Caponigro

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“Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.”
“If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .”
“What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?”
“The internet is not for sissies.”

Source : ba.internet forum, groups.google.com. September 26, 1994.
“Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.”

Source : "Jeff Koons on drawing as a means of articulating an idea". Interview with Dale Berning, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
“A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.”
“If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.”

Source : "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.
“I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.”

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