"I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Vik Muniz

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“Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty”
“Your hair looks like a haystack...but I like it.”
“Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.”
“I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.”
“I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score”
“See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.”
“There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.”
“If you can find a nice pretty country girl that can cook and carries her bible, now there's a woman.”

Source : Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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