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"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work."
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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."
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"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."
"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."
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"Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters."
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"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."
"A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done."
"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."
"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."
"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple."
"The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal."
"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."
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