"The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature."

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Gavin Turk

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“If I had a brick for every time Iâ€™ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think Iâ€™d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.”
“I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store? And I was saying, Oh God, I want to learn something else. I wanted to learn to read and write better and do mathematics better. They were very much into Abstract Expressionism and that artsy stuff. And where most kids did what I call meaningless blobs, I could render perfectly.”
“Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.”
“There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.”
“I talk about being Australian a lot.”
“The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.”
“The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?”

Source : "Eben Moglen: The dotCommunist Manifesto". Eben Moglen's speech at the Howard W. Odum Institute for Social Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 8, 2001.
“Offering multiple games to reach such a broad audience is a great way to create awareness about horse racing. Obviously, my favorite is the jockey game. It's very realistic.”

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