"The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real."

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Source : Denis Donoghue (1994). “The old moderns: essays on literature and theory”, Knopf

Denis Donoghue

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.”
“Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.”
“Iâ€™ve worked with volunteers before,â€ he began. â€œItâ€™s important not toâ€¦ not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they donâ€™t necessarily take that attitude. They feel theyâ€™re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.”
“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”
“when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”
“Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 4, 2006.
“With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.”
“The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is”

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