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Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian Artist
Born: Sep 21, 1960
Art Like Think Time Work You
Related authors: Artemisia Gentileschi Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Vasari Giotto di Bondone Leonardo da Vinci Marco Brambilla Michelangelo
Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process. Maurizio Cattelan
Life Work Morning Editing Sometimes Coffee Everyday Life Important Mistakes Tea Every Changing Everyday Rule Out Part Idea Between Like Know Most Parts Important Parts Same The Most Important Process Decision-Making Decision-Making Process Choose Milk
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Maurizio Cattelan
Truth Needs Truth Is Sometimes Tell Make Fiction Hard Plausible
Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation. Maurizio Cattelan
Work Art Great Every Promise Open Invitation Like Escape Therefore
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin. Maurizio Cattelan
Humour Sides Point Point Of View Tragedy Irony Same View Include Two Coin
There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern. Maurizio Cattelan
Focus Scandalous Major Concern Issues Provocative Times Being Help Bring
Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It's a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems. Maurizio Cattelan
Art Good History You Perspective Will Feelings Past Further Bad About Seems More Remain Longer Understand Concrete Question Get Trying Forgetting Which Good And Bad Acts Plausible Last Symbols
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions. Maurizio Cattelan
Laughter Imagination Strike Visceral Enter Trigger Direct Direct Contact Horse Unconscious Contact Reactions
Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities. Maurizio Cattelan
Sad Animals Humorous Scary Stuffed Qualities Tragic
I would describe myself as a tallish, shy, middle-aged man who equally loves his work and his freedom. And a good liar! Maurizio Cattelan
Work Myself Good Freedom Man Liar Would Equally His Middle-Aged Middle-Aged Man Loves Who Describe Shy
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way. Maurizio Cattelan
Beautiful Harmless Way Extremely Disturbing Something Idea Device Employing Am Convey Apparently Fascinated Images
What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense. Maurizio Cattelan
Life Sense Our Everything Seems Point Absurd Until Makes Die Then
It's not my job to tell people what a work means. Maurizio Cattelan
Work People Job Tell Means
Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events. Maurizio Cattelan
Music Art Events Achieve Will Big Think Television Possible Area Never Football Contemporary Contemporary Art Audience Stop Influence Pop Should Pop Music Comparing
I am not an artist. Maurizio Cattelan
Am Artist
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable. Maurizio Cattelan
Mind Interviews Carried Only Sharp Between Most His Lines Meanings Fully Now
I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die. Maurizio Cattelan
Death Fear Comedy Laughter Animals Think Related Must Only Fact Know Reaction Linked Closely Die Quintessential Human Who
I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked. Maurizio Cattelan
Morning Dedication Everything Horror Between Half-Baked Bed Equivalent Up Get Inaccurate Bring Night
Damien Hirst knows how to drive super-fast cars... I love my bicycle. Maurizio Cattelan
Love Car Drive Bicycle Knows How
I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them. Maurizio Cattelan
Buy Jealous Great You Happy Energy Think Colleagues Been Decided Them Should Works Save
Sooner or later, all magazines end up in the toilet. Maurizio Cattelan
Later Magazines Sooner Sooner Or Later End Up Toilet
I work more with my stomach than my brain. Maurizio Cattelan
Work More Brain Than Stomach
My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut. Maurizio Cattelan
Balance Aim Possible Perfect Open Between Incomprehensible Shut
I have become an employee of art. Maurizio Cattelan
Art Become Employee
You don't wanna see your work, because you might find out that you do not like it. Maurizio Cattelan
Work You Out Find See Like Because Wanna Might Your
Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time. Maurizio Cattelan
Buy Time Myself You Sometimes Others Locked Detached See My Time Feel Box Because Am Very Owner Cannot Lucky
Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid. Maurizio Cattelan
Work Time Dangerous Cocktail Out One Time Ten Only Price Throwing Arm Like Also Paid Works
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