"I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation."

-- Jeff Koons

#Trying Quotes #Participation Quotes #Feels Quotes

“You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find”
“Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation....”
“The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.”
“What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for we've recognized that we're a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation.”
“To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.”
“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”
“When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men,”
“If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.”

Source : "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times (April 9, 1944). Quoted in: "Democracy Reborn", p. 259, 1944.

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