Leon Golub quotes

“Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.”
-- Leon Golub

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“I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.”
-- Leon Golub

Source : Leon Golub (1997). “Leon Golub: do paintings bite? : selected texts 1948-1996”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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“Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.”
-- Leon Golub

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“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.”
-- Leon Golub

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“The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.”
-- Leon Golub

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“People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently.”
-- Leon Golub

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“Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.”
-- Leon Golub

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“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.”

“Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.”

“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”

“I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.”

“I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.”

Source : "I want to be alone. Oh really?" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.