"Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt"

-- Christian Boltanski

#Art Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.”
“If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.”
“I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.”
“I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.”
“Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.”
“I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.”
“You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role. When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.”
“We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.”

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