Budd Hopkins Quotes

#1. We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

Vaclav Klaus

#2. A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.

Budd Hopkins

#3. A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

Geoffrey Norman

#4. Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

John Mayer

#5. The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

Diane Arbus

#6. My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

Budd Hopkins

#7. Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

Budd Hopkins

#8. When you read this you may already have met Hermes. In case you haven't, I'll add that he is a dog. But don't worry. he is very good-tempered - and moreover, a good deal more intelligent than a lot of people. In any event he never tries to give the impression of being cleverer than he is.

Jostein Gaarder

#9. Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Habeeb Akande