"A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea."

-- Hans Hofmann

#Ideas Quotes #Function Quotes

“The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.”
“A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.”
“I like to literally put women on a pedestal”
“Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true in some cases, but on the whole I can't accept this as a vision of art. There's something so cynical about assuming your audience is unintelligent or that artists shouldn't care about their viewers.”

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“You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.”
“A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.”
“My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.”
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”

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