Top 30 Kenneth Goldsmith Quotes
#1. For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#2. I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#3. Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#4. We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
Penelope Lively
#6. Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#8. An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#9. Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.
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#10. Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#11. I arise to day ... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home of Belonging, / In the name of the Solitude / of the Soul and the Earth
John O'Donohue
#12. We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#13. Have you slept yet?'
'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.'
'Didn't you drive there?'
'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.'
- Charley & Cookie
Darynda Jones
#14. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#15. It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#16. Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#17. All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#18. I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#19. I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#20. You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I'm telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren't reading it.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#21. If you don't want something to exist - and there are many reasons to want to keep things private - keep it off the web. But if you put it in digital form, expect it to be bootlegged, remixed, manipulated, and endlessly commented upon.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#22. How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#23. If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#24. Don't tell me that our situation didn't damage us, possibly irreparably.
Sylvain Reynard
#26. I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#27. Head Bitch in charge, luvah...
Mia Asher
#28. Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them ...
Marilyn Manson
#29. If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.
Stephanie Bond
#30. You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
Kenneth Goldsmith
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