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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
"It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville."
"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."
"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."
"I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms."
"The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch."
"Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten."
"At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did."
"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."
"Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator."
"I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made."
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