"Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out of a reality that most of us would rather ignore. How do you make art when the world is in such a state? My answer has been to make mistakes, but when I can, to choose them. We are all guilt victims choosing mistakes, and as Godard said, the very definition of the human condition is in the mise-en-scéne itself."

-- Alfredo Jaar

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“The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.”
“My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.”
“If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. September 30, 2009.
“I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.”
“Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.”
“I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.”
“The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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