Doug Aitken Quotes

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

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• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Art
  • Me
  • Best

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Morning

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Death

• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Female

• I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Travel

• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Done
  • Art
  • Me

• I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Art
  • College
  • Training

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Mind
  • Mood

• I am searching for the proper harmony of rhythm and unchanging proportion, as I wrote in the article. And I cannot tell you how difficult it is. Mondrian is reacting on Van Doesburg criticism of the strong domination of the regular grid in Mondrian's latest paintings

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Strong
  • Criticism

• ...we tell Saudi Arabia that they should stand with the Yemeni people. And anyone who doesn’t stand with our people, they are the losers. We know what it means to be free, and we will achieve it. And the interests of countries, it’s with the people and not with the regimes, because these regimes will be gone.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Free

• Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Political

• I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Mind
  • Art