"Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art."

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Source : Félix González-Torres, Tim Rollins, Susan Cahan, Jan Avgikos (1993). “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, A R T Pr

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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“The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.”
“Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it.”
“It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.”
“We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.”

Source : Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.
“The coolest thing you can become is yourself.”
“I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.”

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