"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

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David Antin

#Together Quotes #Kind Quotes #Process Quotes

“A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.”
“Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.”

Source : Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.25, Macmillan
“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.”
“It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress I got lost on the subway.”

Source : Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.
“You don't just find an empty museum and say, "I should do something here." I was looking for another kind of venue or exhibition format. I was trying to find a site where something could happen over a long period of time - something that could slowly transform itself and the place as it went. And I was also trying to stand out of the art-world system. Strangely enough, I stumbled on vacant museum.”
“My role model is my dad.”
“Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.”

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