Matthew Barney Quotes
- I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to…
- An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in…
- Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how…
- A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have…
- I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.
- A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it…
- Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend…
- I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And…