Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
I try not to manipulate reality. . . What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.
I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world.
I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.
Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.
The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.