"I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors."

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Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

Laura Owens

#Art Quotes #Hero Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.”
“Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.”
“Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.”
“When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.”
“The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.”
“My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.”
“Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.”

Source : Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.115, MIT Press
“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”

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