"If I do something for a public space, it's not something that I have in my head and go, "Oh that's a good location. I should put it here." That for me never exists. When I see the site, then I have an idea that is new and I would never do unless it's there. It's the space or the people there, which will give me the idea."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Daniel Buren

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.”
“Beauty was so heavily important in my family, something I had to contend with. All those experiences allow me to make what I'm making today. I grew up with that. There's a reason why I express that in my art. I'm trying to figure it out myself.”
“Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.”
“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.”
“People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.637, Penguin
“Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.”
“Everyone's sort of the same height when you're looking from bird's eye view.”
“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.”

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