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" A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production. "
Laurie Anderson
Style
Doing
Easy
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" I hate zoos. "
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" I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. "
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" As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. "
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" If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. "
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" I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. "
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" I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work. "
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" I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual. "
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" I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen. "
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" A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. "
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" A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that. "
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" My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that. "
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Work
Good
" I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. "
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Think
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" The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals. "
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Only
Broadway
" It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever? "
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Good
Like
" I'm a real workaholic. "
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Workaholic
Real
" Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. "
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Why
Special
Kind
" Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. "
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Must
Something
Life
" Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. "
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You
Words
" When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! "
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Hi
Mom
Love Is
" The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. "
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" I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. "
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Never
You
" I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. "
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Average
Enough
Person
" Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. "
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Way
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" My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "
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" You can do bigger and bigger things. For what? "
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" I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. "
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" People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. "
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" The world is a strange and wonderful place. "
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" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "
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