Alfredo Jaar Quotes

#1. Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

Alfredo Jaar

#2. On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.

James Surowiecki

#3. I don't want to survive, Will, I want to live!

Courtney Allison Moulton

#4. Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action ... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

Alfredo Jaar

#5. We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

Alfredo Jaar

#6. Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.

David Robinson

#7. I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita.

Alfredo Jaar

#8. I'd been accused of being standoffish and bitchy. The truth was, it wasn't that I was mean or unfriendly. I just generally sucked at small talk with people I didn't know, and most important, I had a severe case of resting bitch face.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. How many languages do we really speak?

Alfredo Jaar

#10. He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

Randy Glasbergen

#11. Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Alfredo Jaar