"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."

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Damien Hirst

#Immortality Quotes #Term Quotes

“Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.”

Source : "Rexroth's Daughter". Song by Greg Brown, 2000.
“A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.”
“You are both a work of art and an artist at work.”
“Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.”
“For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.”
“I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.”
“I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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