"The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort."

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

Laura Owens

#Artist Quotes #Self Quotes #Signatures Quotes

“Restrict bankruptcy rules.”
“They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.”
“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
“Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.”
“Then once you've got that dream in mind please dream a million more and not a million quiet dreams, a million dreams that roar!”
“It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.”
“Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'”
“The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. Â This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. Â The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. Â It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.”

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