"In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact."

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Source : "Cubes! The Horror!". nymag.com. April 1, 2012.

Jerry Saltz

#Art Quotes #Camouflage Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.”
“When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.”

Source : "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
“A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.”
“Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward.”
“Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.”
“People who know me now can't believe I used to be shy, but in some ways I still am.”

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