Top 27 Hofman Quotes
#1. I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
Florentijn Hofman
#2. I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
Al Sharpton
#3. In some churches and religious television programs, we see an effort to make Christianity popular and always positive. This may be a comfortable cushion for those who find the hard facts too difficult.
Billy Graham
#4. The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
Florentijn Hofman
#5. I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
Florentijn Hofman
#6. I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.
Ben Horowitz
#7. I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.
Florentijn Hofman
#8. I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman
#9. My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
Florentijn Hofman
#10. That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
Florentijn Hofman
#12. Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.
Mason Cooley
#14. The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously unsustainable in almost every way, and nothing we know of will likely stop their decline, much less fix them easily.
Alex Steffen
#15. We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other.
Karen Hesse
#16. I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.
Florentijn Hofman
#17. The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
Nate Parker
#18. I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
Florentijn Hofman
#19. Her advice is much like pepper, I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.
L.M. Montgomery
#20. 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
Florentijn Hofman
#21. The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
Florentijn Hofman
#22. The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
William James
#23. In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
Florentijn Hofman
#24. Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
Simone De Beauvoir
#26. I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.
Florentijn Hofman
#27. If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
Florentijn Hofman
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