Art Quote by Jonathon Keats

“I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.”

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[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that…

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We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look…

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I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can…

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[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that…

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I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and…

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I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that…

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Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having…

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I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that…

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You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be honest, I'm…

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There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect…

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On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels…

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I do not think that technology is our salvation.

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