"The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back."

-- Jerry Saltz

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“I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.”

Source : "The passion project" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.
“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”
“It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.”
“I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.”

Source : "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.
“When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.”
“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.”
“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
“You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.”

Source : "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer" By Stax, www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.

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