"The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that."

-- Matthew Collings

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“I'm an actor, but it sort of has to feel serious on a different level. I have to be happy with the choices I make now; it can't just be in hopes of creating a better future for myself. It has to bring me fulfillment. I have to find a way to be happy today.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.”
“The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.”
“We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.”

Source : William Bradford, Edward Winslow (2009). “Plymouth plantation: selections from the narratives of William Bradford and Edward Winslow”
“Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.”

Source : "Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.
“Particular lies may speak a general truth.”
“Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.”
“My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen.”

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