"There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me."

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Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

Laura Owens

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #House Quotes

“I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order.”
“Profit is the celebration of service.”
“We are hammered 24/7 with the "far left" and "far right" points of view, pounding us, beating us upside the head with purely political theatrics in order to make us believe it's real. It's not real. It's a con!”
“Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.”
“To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.”
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.”
“I think glamour is synonymous with me.”
“IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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