"If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald."

“We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.”

“Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.”

“Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.”

“For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.”

“He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.”

“I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.”

Source : "The Aesthetics of Witnessing: A Conversation with Alfredo Jaar". Art Journal Interview with Patricia C. Philips, www.publicart.ie. 2005.

“There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.”

“Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence”

Source : George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “The Origin and Nature of Secularism: Showing that where Freethought Commonly Ends Secularism Begins”