Rist Quotes

#1. A History of Economic Doctrines" - written by Gide and Rist

M.L. Jhingan

#2. Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes. He arose the victor from the dark domain and He lives forever with his saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah..,Ch rist arose!

Robert Lowry

#3. PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

Pipilotti Rist

#5. Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.

Pipilotti Rist

#6. You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

Russel Honore

#7. Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood,

Enoch

#8. Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Randall Robinson

#9. I do a lot of garbage.

Pipilotti Rist

#10. First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

Pipilotti Rist

#11. Women are less interested in watching two people having sex than in understanding how and what these people are feeling when they are having sex. If you kiss someone, you want to know what the other person is feeling. So I want to find pictures that express what the other feels.

Pipilotti Rist

#12. I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

Pipilotti Rist

#13. When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

Pipilotti Rist

#14. The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.

Bray Wyatt

#15. It is better to find your own faults and rectify them than to find thousands of faults in others.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.

Pipilotti Rist

#17. We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.

Deepak Chopra