"Youâ€™re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduction ideaâ€¦if my work is reductionist itâ€™s because it doesnâ€™t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like."

-- Donald Judd

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.5, Vintage
“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”
“Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.”
“I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.”
“Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.”
“As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.”
“The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.”
“I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?”

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