Noto Quotes

#1. Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Alva Noto

#2. The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies!

Elisa Paige

#3. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Anthony Noto

#4. My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Sophie Okonedo

#5. You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

Alva Noto

#6. If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market.

James O'Shaughnessy

#7. I was at an ATM and this old lady asked me to help check her balance, So I pushed her over.

Hudson Moore

#8. I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

Alva Noto

#9. We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176

Gloria Steinem

#10. The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

Anthony Noto

#11. I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

Anthony Noto

#12. The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Seneca.

#13. I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Alva Noto

#14. He wiped out Jericho, and He saved a harlot. What kind of God was this? He seemed at once impossibly holy and ridiculously merciful. How could you tie those two incongruities together? Rahab

Tessa Afshar

#15. I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Alva Noto

#16. Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

Alva Noto

#17. When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Alva Noto

#18. The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

Alva Noto

#19. I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Alva Noto

#20. It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Alva Noto

#21. It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

Alva Noto

#22. One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

Alva Noto

#23. There is always room for coincidence.

Alva Noto

#24. Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

Alva Noto