"In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever."

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Source : "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

Bruce Nauman

#Thinking Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.”
“I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.”
“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?”
“The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.”
“At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.”
“We travel through the dark of the moon wheneverâ€¦ we face the loss of that form which has given our life a structure and sense of identityâ€¦ What has been is no longer, and what is to come has not yet appeared.”
“No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.”
“Listen to your customers, not your competitors.”

Source : Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.336, Apress

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