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"Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?"

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

"Eventually, I'd like one monitor at the North Pole, one at the South, and two at the equator, big monitors switching images back and forth."

"A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once."

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🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

"I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said: "Richard, calm down."

"Television is a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well-done."

"If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result."

"There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist. It’s not like becoming a doctor or something. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."

"When I met Terry Fox in Berkeley in 1970, we became fast friends. I felt his sensibility had a lot in common with Beuys, whom I’d known for some time, and I helped get them together."

"The problem with artlike art, or even doses of artlike art that still linger in lifelike art, is that it overemphasizes the discourse within art."

"I do not mind objects, but I do not care to make them."

"As a design-scientist the artist discovers and perfects language that corresponds more directly to experience; he develops hardware that embodies its own software as a conceptual tool for coping with reality."

"I just...the world just...it's just different. It changes every day."

"I never thought I was shocking,” she says. “I say this all the time and it sounds disingenuous, but I always thought, ‘This is something they need. My culture is going to recognize it’s missing something.'"

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🇬🇧Tracey Emin

Art

Young British Artists

b. 1963

"There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol."

"Without electricity, there can be no art."

"The antithesis of 10th St. Howard was, at first, like a pariah uptown. He was very midwestern and his gallery had wall-to-wall carpeting."

"Some Notes on Seeing: The Waters Reglitterized By Laurie Anderson for exhibition 2005"

"An exact science is one that admits loss."

"Events are weapons for politicization of art."

"It is the poetry of Rimbaud removed from the soot of the history of literature"

"Germany at that time was synonymous with the Holocaust to me and as a Jew it was necessary to face that."

"For me personally, the greatest art to date has been created in New York and the most uptight and conventional art in Berlin. Obviously, I am an exception to this rule!"

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