Leon Golub Quotes

#1. People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently.

Leon Golub

#2. Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon.

Shai Tubali

#3. Tears do not replace sweat, at least it never did in me ... When I just cry, I'm in the same situation.

Chico Xavier

#4. I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

Leon Golub

#5. There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

Maynard James Keenan

#6. I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

Leon Golub

#7. Artists are part of the information process ... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

Leon Golub

#8. Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

Leon Golub

#9. Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

Leon Golub

#10. I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

Scott Wolf

#11. Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Norman Rush

#12. As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

Charles Cumming

#13. Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

J. J. Watt

#14. I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

Kevin J. Anderson