"I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual."

-- Michael Snow

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“We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.”
“We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to very severe dependence. With alcohol or cigarettes however, sensibly limited consumption does not bear the risk of immediate addictiveness as this is the case with cannabis according to our opinion. With alcohol there surely is an element of a tradition. However, enjoyed in moderation, as supplement to a meal for example, alcohol is not something that causes immediate dependence. Still, there is a great need for prevention and information in this matter.”
“I am a student of whoever I can learn from.”
“The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.”
“Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.”
“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.”
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”

Source : "The Vita Activa". The New Yorker, October 18, 1958.
“I want to be free... free to develop my art.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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