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Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.

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Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

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Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

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All art is made from anger.

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In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

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Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

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Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

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