Firsts Quotes by John Chamberlain

“As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free to choose…

— John Chamberlain

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

— John Chamberlain

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

— John Chamberlain

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

— John Chamberlain

Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is…

— John Chamberlain

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being…

— John Chamberlain

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

— John Chamberlain

Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the…

— John Chamberlain

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists,…

— John Chamberlain

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States…

— John Chamberlain

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

— John Chamberlain

I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet…

— John Chamberlain