Skoglund Artist Quotes & Sayings

A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke! — Donnell Rawlings

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession. — Estelle Parsons

Fear will make a person grasp in desperation for answers--be they truth or fable. — Beem Weeks

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution. — Lawrence Lessig

This saying is both true and terse:
There's nothing bad but might be worse. — Thornton Burgess

Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would hear me. Still, I have to keep soldiering on until I die, the only way I know how. Not a laudable sort of life, but the only life I know how to live. — Haruki Murakami

I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation ... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal. — Sandy Skoglund

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. — Eliot Spitzer

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction. — Joseph Beuys

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. — Plato