Top 16 Maurizio Cattelan Quotes
#1. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln
#2. I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works ...
Maurizio Cattelan
#4. 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
#6. 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
#7. Serious numbers will speak to us always.
Paul Simon
#8. Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
John Updike
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.
James Whistler
#12. I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#13. First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
Lincoln Steffens
#14. You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
Tao Lin
#15. 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
#16. 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
