Joe Mungo Reed > Quotes

“We are ordinary in our graveness, our desolation. Some hope in that, perhaps. The question is not how to do what is remarkable, as it has been for so long, but to do what is sufficient, to know what is enough.”
― Joe Mungo Reed, We Begin Our Ascent

“A life is not an equation, I tell myself. I tell myself; not a thing made or broken by its end.”
― Joe Mungo Reed, Terrestrial History

“Malevich didn't mean to put himself at the center. He said, 'Art doesn't need us and it never has.'"
"He's speaking for art like a ventriloquist with a dummy." Marina laughs. "He has his hand up art's ass.”
― Joe Mungo Reed, Hammer