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Matthew Barney

"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."

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"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."

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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."

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"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all."

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"People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet."

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"We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car."

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Akiroq Brost

"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."

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Akiroq Brost

"They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing."

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Akiroq Brost

"I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush."

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Matthew Barney
"A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted."

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Matthew Barney
"I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that."

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Matthew Barney
"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body."

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Matthew Barney
"A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it."

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Matthew Barney
"An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it."

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Matthew Barney
"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."

Car

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