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“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.”
Source : "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.
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“I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.”
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“Forget your ideas about art. Make a shopping list of everything you like about what you've done. Include qualities that you've seen in your life, in the world, and possibly in art that you like. Take this list and make a work that satisfies all of the things on your list without caring if it looks like art.”
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“The US dollar will make new lows”
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“Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.”
Source : Olympe de Gouges (1989). “The Rights of Woman”
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“Health care is a right, not a privilege.”
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“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”
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“When I dance, it's incredible. I can't describe it, there's no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go.”