"Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic"

“Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.”

“Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.”

“There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.”

Source : Anthony Eden (1960). “The Memoirs of Full Circle”

“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

“The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.”

“My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.”

“I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another way that someone put it is, you climb over the fence and you cut a hole in it, and let everyone else in. That's kind of what this is. The museum is a repository of great works, but there is certain work that no one ever calls great. This is an insistence on directing their attention to other stuff that's great, that never gets to be in a museum.”

“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”

Source : Richard Siken (2015). “War of the Foxes”, p.46, Copper Canyon Press