The Last Word
As 2016 draws to a close, we’ve selected a few of the most memorable quotes that ran in Surface this year.
By Surface December 19, 2016
- “I have three friends: confusion, contradiction, and awkwardness.”
—John Brockman in “Agent Provocateur”
- “I’m not the only one living in cuckoo land.”
—Simon Doonan in “Simon Doonan’s Mad World Memories”
- “More people need to know that they’re not fucking cool.”
—Kanye West in “Free Form: Kanye West”
- “The arc goes Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Lil Wayne.”
—Tom Sachs in “Art and Soul”
- “The art of doing nothing and at the same time doing a lot—we’ve lost some of that.”
—Inés Miró-Sans in “Sketches of Spain”
- “Art schools … Jesus. I hate them with a passion.”
–Mark Flood in “When Hell Floods Over”
- “A listicle is plodding, whether it pretends to levity or portentousness.”
—Kim Velsey in “Why I Make Lists and Reject Listicles”
- “The dinosaur bone joint was a birthday present to myself.”
—Monique Péan in “The Natural Order of Monique Péan’s Studio”
- “My architecture hides secrets.”
—Odile Decq in “Odile Decq Breaks the Rules in Life and Work”
- “The job of a man is an old job. The personality closer to the nature of our time is the female one.”
—Gaetano Pesce in “Gaetano Pesce Embraces Clutter”
- “The women’s perspective is missing in tech product decisions.”
—Kinjil Mathur quoted in “Foursquare’s CMO Shows Us Her Favorite Spots in Dallas”
- “If we don’t have any controversy, I’m not doing my job.”
—Alice Gray Stites in “21c Hotels Brings Contemporary Art to the Heartland”
- “In the land of lies, the biggest liar sometimes wins.”
—Jayson Blair in “Where the Facts Lie”
- “The truth is a contentious space.”
—Hank Willis Thomas in “Studio Visit: Hank Willis Thomas”