"For me, art is always a kind of theater."

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Source : Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

Damien Hirst

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“We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today's incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these things. We pretend that everything that has happened happened long ago, and then we act as if we all now just treat each other equally, everything will be fine.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.”
“At the end of the day nobody's perfect and everybody's weird whether they embrace it or not”
“Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.”

Source : Hubert Van Zeller (1973). “Considerations”, Templegate Publishers
“I told the truth about ***** and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction. Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility”
“Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.84, e-artnow
“Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.”
“Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.”

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