Cattelan Art Quotes

#1. Clostridium botulinum: Found in jams and preserves that weren't prepared properly, this bad bug produces one of the deadliest toxins on Earth-it enters our nerve cells and paralyzes them. Marketed as Botox, it's injected into people's foreheads to make wrinkles disappear!

Jennifer Gardy

#2. It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

Peter Hook

#3. The new covenant only begins after the cross, when the Holy Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost. There is a lot of confusion and wrong believing in the church today because many Christians read their Bibles without rightly dividing the old and new covenants.

Joseph Prince

#4. The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists to get over auction houses, galleries, and high-production-value exhibitions and start using our voices again.

Maurizio Cattelan

#5. If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.

Habeeb Akande

#6. I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

Jessica Lange

#7. No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#8. I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art ... It would be like talking about a golden age of science. But it's true that those were slightly more ideological times, and the relevance of artists wasn't established by their CVs but by their work.

Maurizio Cattelan

#9. When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were like, "You should never leave a gallery if you didn't have somewhere else to go," but I wasn't trying to disrespect the gallerists in that way.

Kalup Linzy

#10. As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

Anthony Bourdain

#11. I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

Maurizio Cattelan

#12. I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb