"Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly."

-- Jacques Lacan

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“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.”
“As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.”
“Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.”
“I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”
“The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.”
“Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.”
“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

Source : "Artists on Art: From the 14th to the 20th Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater, p. 453, 1972.
“Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.”

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