"When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished."

-- Robert Adams

#Art Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
“Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.”
“It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.”
“I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.”
“Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.”
“It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.”
“We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.”

Source : "Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.
“I think the best way to crash a stranger's party would be to arrive as the pizza person, buy pizza, buy some sort of pizza shirt, walk in like you're delivering the pizza, put it down and proceed to party while eating the pizza.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

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