Cattelan Artist Quotes & Sayings

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor. — Kathy Griffin

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man's done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. — Richard Foreman

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity. — E.W. Howe

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death. — Shinmon Aoki

Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept ... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction ... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now. — Jane Roberts

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye! — Seneca The Younger

If we don't survive this night, I will die unafraid, Kaz. Can you say the same? — Leigh Bardugo

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. — Samuel Johnson

Part of the blame can be put at the artists' door, too - no question. But I see our involvement more as a consequence. When there is too much money at stake, the whole system gets corrupted. Artists can be very vulnerable to these mechanisms. — Maurizio Cattelan