"If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time."

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Damien Hirst

#Choices Quotes #Buying Quotes #Building Quotes

“Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.”
“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

Source : "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.
“You've got to use alcohol and not let it use you. I come from a country that's been doomed by alcohol. The Irish could drink; they could drink Europe. And they'd have a good go at America, too. I mean, you guys - your alcohol is like not good, it's weak.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.”

Source : Charles Buxton (1883). “Notes of Thought”
“There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.”

Source : "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.
“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”

Source : "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.
“Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination...”
“When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.”

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