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" A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it. "
Letters
Face
People
" A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed. "
Photograph
Been
Steal
" Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. "
Discourse
Body
Fashion
" Dead people don't really die. They live on within you. "
People
Die
Dead
" I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done. "
Anything
Done
See
" I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic. "
Connect
Fashion
Elegance
" I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue. "
Imagination
Great
Know
" I love language, and I love the failure of language. "
Language
Love
Failure
" I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over. "
Over
Newspaper
Know
" I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either. "
Optimist
Pessimist
Either
" I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part. "
Generosity
End
Me
" I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them. "
Want
Think
You
" I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected. "
Fashion
Think
Style
" It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out. "
Change
Art
Moving
" I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art. "
Art
Pretty
Pretentious
" To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language. "
Me
Drop
Language
" When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly. "
Bad
Fashion
Get
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