“If I have to be honest, I have to bring bad news. The bad news is that I believe that an artist is an artist because he chooses not to tamper with reality; he chooses not to better reality. The creative mind comes at a price, so ultimately, an artist makes an ethical choice—he deals not so much with the world of ideas, but with the world of forms. And the world of forms does not make deals.” – Francesco Clemente

“I wasn’t athletic, I couldn’t catch a ball, I couldn’t throw a ball, I had all kinds of physical limitations as well. So this was it.” – Chuck Close

“’It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.’” – The Skin Horse

“It had to be affordable and had to fit into the appartment” – Herbert Vogel

“People look at the work and say, oh that’s a feasible solution, and they use it and add their things to it and take things away – that’s the point of design to move things on….” – Lawrence Weiner

We Are Gathered Here.
By Daniel Kitson.

Everyone you have ever known will die.
And so will you.

And yet we dance in the looming shadows of mortality, we dance and we talk and we eat and we argue. We read books. We care for people. We buy houses. We plant trees and we start to drive and we learn how to make milk frothy. Because something, somewhere in the middle of it all has to matter. As our seconds and minutes and days slip by, something has to be important. And who are we to giggle and point and sneer at what others have found to care about? Who is to say what is beneath us, what is not worthy of our hearts?

Everybody needs something to hold when it gets dark, so who am I, who are any of us, to point at anything and call it facile or redundant or stupid or rubbish?

Even when it quite clearly is.

- Daniel Kitson

“Brace for impact” – Chesley B. Sullenberger III

“Action” – John Hillcoat

“I believe the biggest obstacle to solving global warming is the role of money in politics” - James Hansen

“Yippy Ka Yay muthafucka” – John McClane