Dustin Yellin Quotes

#1. Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.

Dustin Yellin

#2. Birth is to celebrate, death is to mourn - Menu 8 (Death: Loved Ones!)

Santosh Avvannavar

#3. As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.

Dustin Yellin

#4. I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

Dustin Yellin

#5. We live in relative world with relatives.

Deyth Banger

#6. Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.

Dustin Yellin

#7. My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.

Dustin Yellin

#8. When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

Andy Goldsworthy

#9. You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn't love.

Jerry Springer

#10. In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

Rachel Tucker

#12. New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and ... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

Dustin Yellin

#13. Now there's a girl I don't want to mess with' - or at least, that's what I would think if I had a chronic fear of freakishly nice people.

Nenia Campbell

#14. I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Benjamin Watson