Rirkrit Tiravanija Quotes

#1. The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food his birthright, even as he strove to read the cryptic messages that the Gods were strewing before him.

Deepti Menon

#2. I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.

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#3. Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Jenna Morasca

#4. When I visit new places, I like to see the markets.

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#5. The power of love is not properly gauged if it is estimated only by the object that inspires it, if the tension preceding it is not taken into account - that gloomy space of disillusionment and loneliness which stretches in front of all the great events of the heart.

Stefan Zweig

#6. When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

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#7. It's the way he looks at you like you're the only thing that matters to him.

Steph Nuss

#8. I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!

Rajneesh

#10. Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#11. One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

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#12. I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

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#13. I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

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#14. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.

Procopius Of Caesarea

#15. Kikkhf fkattkx hfkixu zttkcu," she said.

Max Barry

#16. One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.

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#17. For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself.

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#18. I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

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#19. I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot machines. All they want is for you to sit still and buy all kinds of junk, and play the stock market as though it were a game of blackjack.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.

Thomas Huxley

#21. The moon is wicked, jealous of the sun. People do bad things in the dark, under the hollow gaze of the moon. It's smiling at me now, proud of my sin.

Tarryn Fisher

#22. My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

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#23. Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

Mignon McLaughlin

#24. For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible.

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#25. I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

Adrian Lyne

#26. I've been dealt a fuller set of cards than the ones passed to Lily and Daisy. They're just as strong, if not stronger. I've always been here as extra reinforcement, and however old we become, however gray we are, that won't ever change.

Krista Ritchie

#27. I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.

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#28. If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

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