Artist Quotes by Rachel Kushner

14 Artist quotes by Rachel Kushner

Kushner’s fourteen observations read like fragments of a novel, each hinting at how narrative and visual detail intersect in her work. The collection feels like a quiet conversation about the power of observation.

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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

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Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For…

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I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a…

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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm…

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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes…

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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not…

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I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the…

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I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the…

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It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most…

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I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think…

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You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing…

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I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that…

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Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.

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Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

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“Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect.…

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Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

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“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.”

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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

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People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much…

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“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the…

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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

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While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the…

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And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave…

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I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the…

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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

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