"Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'"

-- Thomas Frank

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“I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.”
“Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.”
“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work”
“[There are] so many things I've learned, and I'm still learning, actually.”

Source : "The Beauty in the Basics". Interview with Natalia Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2016.
“"Culture" is a new phenomenon, I believe. Culture is the new religion. People treat you based upon your culture. You are pushed to describe yourself by your culture: Kurdish or Turkish? Left wing or right wing? Progressive or conservative? Westerner or Easterner? European or Asian? So we have a label ready for you.”
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
“American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.”
“Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You donâ€™t decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.”

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