"I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Wade Guyton

#Art Quotes #Money Quotes #New York Quotes

“What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.”
“I hate the phrase â€œOne thing led to anotherâ€. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? â€œAdolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japanâ€.”
“He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.”
“The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences”
“I think most of us secretly know â€“ and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say â€“ that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.”
“I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.”

Source : Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.49, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways,”
“Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not.”

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