"Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up in artist in time. But art is a little bit different. Art is a conversation. And if there's no conversation, what the hell is it about?"

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Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

Lawrence Weiner

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.”
“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”
“Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.”
“By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.”
“When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.”
“If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.”
“More women are graduating from college now than men.”
“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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