"Help me give up my addiction to Hope."

“I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

“Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing.”

Source : "Trillion Dollar Fraudsters". www.nytimes.com. March 20, 2015.

“Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.”

“But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.”

“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”

Source : "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1967.

“Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.”

“But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.”

“We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history”

Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)