"You become an artist to upset your family."

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Source : "Nach uns die Malflut! Theoretische Poesien". Book by Gunter Brus (p. 135), 2003.

Gunter Brus

#Artist Quotes #Upset Quotes #Our Family Quotes

“Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.”
“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”
“An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.”

Source : Martin McDonagh (2013). “The Cripple Of Inishmaan”, p.63, A&C Black
“The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.”
“Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.”
“I have great faith in the millennials and in what they understand about social media, and how they're going to be able to counter fascist forces as they come.”
“I like to listen to sad music when Iâ€™m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.”

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