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Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It's a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Tags: you, history, art, good

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I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Tags: something, way, i-am, beautiful
There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Tags: concern, being, help, focus
I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Tags: think, die, fear, death
I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Tags: end, someone, true, you
If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Tags: together, great, you, art
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