Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
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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.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
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As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Architecture is invention.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
