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"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

"Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough."

"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."

"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."

"The reality about life is that challenges are inevitable."
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"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."

"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."

"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."

"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."

"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them."
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