Cattelan Quotes

#1. I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works ...

Maurizio Cattelan

#2. 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

#3. My ideas are all the same but look different.

Maurizio Cattelan

#4. The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me ...

Wanda Koop

#5. I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand ... I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.

Maurizio Cattelan

#6. 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

#7. Part of the blame can be put at the artists' door, too - no question. But I see our involvement more as a consequence. When there is too much money at stake, the whole system gets corrupted. Artists can be very vulnerable to these mechanisms.

Maurizio Cattelan

#8. There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

Alexander MacLaren

#9. Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.

David Limbaugh

#10. Did you know that if you re-arrange the letters in 'mother-in-law' you can create the phrase 'woman Hitler'?
Holly from Secrets

Sara Daniell

#11. Some days, I simply persist.

Paul Kalanithi

#12. Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens ...

Victor Hugo

#14. I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.

Maurizio Cattelan

#15. 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