Nicolas Bourriaud Quotes

How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

Nicolas Bourriaud

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • School
  • Wonder

• I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Youth
  • Weed
  • Marijuana

• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Kind
  • Economy
  • Recovery

• That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Trust

• He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

  

  Robert Frost
  • House
  • Fire
  • Insurance

• Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Thinking
  • Speak
  • Promise

• I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Color
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• The health and rights of women and adolescents should not be treated like an afterthought in humanitarian response, for the pregnant woman who is about to deliver, or the adolescent girl who survived sexual violence, life-saving services are as vital as water, food and shelter.

  

  Babatunde Osotimehin
  • Women
  • Rights
  • Services

• Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Violence
  • Film
  • Betrayal

• Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Judgment
  • Comparison
  • Limitation

• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Imagination
  • Judgment
  • Disciplined

• How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

  

  Nicolas Bourriaud
  • Judgment
  • Eclecticism
  • Telescoping