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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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

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Akiroq Brost

"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."

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Akiroq Brost

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

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Akiroq Brost

"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."

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Akiroq Brost

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

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Akiroq Brost

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

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Akiroq Brost

"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."

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Akiroq Brost

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

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Akiroq Brost

"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."

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Akiroq Brost

"As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic."

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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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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
"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
"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 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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