Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
A nut is someone whose noose broke.
I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.
Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.
What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.