"From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation."

-- Marina Abramovic

#Art Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Documentation Quotes

“What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.”

Source : "Naomi Knows It All" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 7, 2012.
“I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...”
“You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey”
“'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.”
“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
“The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality...”
“If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.”
“If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.”

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