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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future


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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.



A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.



Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.



Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.



A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.



Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.



Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.



Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.



Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.



I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.





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You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.



Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

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I've endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye.

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I'll do anything usually if there's money involved and little work.



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It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.



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The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.



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If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.



The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.



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