"My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries."

-- Steve Olson

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“So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple side latch. Another was strictly ornamental. Another you could open by whispering the right thing to it at the right time, which is the type of lock most humans have.”
“In England we are sort of very awkward.”
“Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?”
“The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.”
“If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.”

Source : 1920 Economics ofWelfare.
“If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.”

Source : "Manifold destiny" by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.
“All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?”
“If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.”

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