"Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Alfredo Jaar

“I'm one of those guys that never get embarrassed.”
“Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.”
“I rang up Jay Kay, who's got one, and said: 'Can we borrow yours?' and he said, 'Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.'”
“Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.”
“The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know”
“I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance.”
“It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
“Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.”

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