"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

Death, Life, Decisions

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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."

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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

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"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

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