"I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity."

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Source : Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2009.

Albert Oehlen

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Oil Quotes

“People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.”
“I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.”
“It's funny when I get recognized on the train. People either say â€˜I love your show, dudeâ€™ or â€˜Hey, where do you buy good weed?â€™”
“It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.”
“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?”
“O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.”
“You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.”
“There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid.”

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