Gordon Matta-Clark quotes

“Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.”
-- Gordon Matta-Clark

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“You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it”
-- Gordon Matta-Clark

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“I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography.”
-- Gordon Matta-Clark

Source : Stephen Walker, Gordon Matta-Clark (2009). “Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism”, I B Tauris & Company Limited

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“The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.”

“The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.”

“It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.”

“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes”

Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

“Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.”

“Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.”

Source : "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.

“Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

“We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.”

“Games are the most elevated form of investigation.”