Kienholz Artist Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe in having bands for solo records. — Mick Jagger

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. — John Adams

But I couldn't be sure we wouldn't all die here on the steppe with snow in our mouths and holes in our hearts. — Dan Smith

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing. — Jake LaMotta

For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession. — Billy Al Bengston

One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours - all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy. — William Faulkner

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf