"I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it."

-- Jeff Koons

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“It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
“He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.”
“Itâ€™s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.”
“Once again, I donâ€™t quite know where Iâ€™m headed Steph. It seems that every few years Iâ€™m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I canâ€™t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And Iâ€™m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what Iâ€™m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think â€œIâ€™m where I want to be now.”
“There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.”
“A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.”
“I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.”
“Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White Russians. This is where [Leon] Theremin met a lot of people, and where the KGB eventually picked him up.”

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