Ettore Pasquini

“I like being in a weak position, and making it strong.”
― Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

“[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers]

A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. ”
― Jack London

“Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: “Art is a matter of life and death.” It sounds melodramatic, but it's so true. This was exactly how it was for me”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“Ita est: non accipimus brevem vitam sed fecimus, nec inopes eius sed prodigi sumus.”
― Seneca Lucius Annaeus, On The Shortness Of Life