I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore,… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene now. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself.… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
