"A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE"

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Source : Mark Lawrence Rosenthal, Marla Prather, Ian Alteveer, Rebecca Lowery, Polly Apfelbaum (2012). “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”, p.119, Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Baldessari

#Two Quotes #Articulation Quotes #Surface Quotes

“I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.”
“Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.”

Source : Interview with Abe Heilman; Paul Wallace Research Collection, Accession 97004, Box 2, Folder 24; Hershey Community Archives, Hershey, PA, USA, 1953.
“The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.”
“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”
“People are being more experimental. I hear chords being played that really haven't been on the radio. I love that. I go to my kids' school and see kids playing in bands. It is a sign of what's to come.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.”
“We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.”
“I did every sport under the sun while growing up.”

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