Entries in If you could say one sentence to future generations what would it be? (3)

Wednesday
Apr022008

Terence Koh

Matthew Stone and friends interview Terence Koh.

Terence Koh: THAT IS AN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT ANSWER TO ANSWER. IT SAT IN MY BRAIN FOR A FEW DAYS LIKE AN ALMOST DEAD CAT TRYING TO FIND TUNA. ULTIMATELY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO FIND SOMEBODY THAT LOVES YOU AND THAT LOVES YOU BACK. AND TO HAVE IT FOR ETERNITY. LOVE FOR ETERNITY.

TK: TO GRASP THE CONCEPT OF THE ETERNAL.

TK: THAT’S AN INDIVIDUAL THING REALLY. ART CAN BE ANYTHING. BUT I CONCLUDED THAT MY OWN ART I WANT TO AFFECT PEOPLE SO THAT THEY ARE HAPPIER. NOTHING COMPLICATED ABOUT THAT, TO DO SOMETHING THAT MAKES THEM FEEL GOOD. ACTUALLY TO MAKE THEM FEEL LOVE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, ITS JUST THAT THING YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHEN YOU FEEL IT. ITS ALMOST AN IMPOSSIBLE AIM.

TK: THE OPPOSITE WHAT YOU SUPPOSE IT SHOULD FEEL. I ALWAYS THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU GET, THE MORE YOU SHOULD BE TORTURED.

TK: NORMAN YOU KNOW WE CAN’T, I CAN’T ANSWER THAT. CAUSE WE ASK OURSELVES THAT VERY QUESTION EVERY SECOND. AND OBVIOUSLY THAT’S SOMETHING WE CAN’T ANSWER. AND YES OF COURSE ITS COMPLETELY STRANGE. WHY ELSE WOULD WE SOLDIER ON IF WE DIDN’T FEEL WEIRD, IF WE FELT STRANGE, IF WE FELT QUEASY. ITS A FEELING THAT EXISTED SINCE WE KNEW WHAT THE CONCEPT OF, I, WAS. WE ARE ALIVE BECAUSE YOU KNOW AS AN, I, YOU ARE THE ONLY REASON FOR BEING. BEING COMPLETELY A SELFISH CUNT.

  • MS: What question should be added to this list?

TK: NOTHING MORE NEED BEE SAID?

Saturday
Dec152007

Boo Saville

Matthew Stone and friends interview Boo Saville.

BS: Magic, pleasure, positivity, gravity and instinct.
BS: Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
BS: I would like to be remembered for my paintings, but I’ll probably be remembered for being Jenny’s sister.
BS: Don’t know how to answer that. Probably not. Maybe.
BS: I couldn’t think of just one so….
Fra Angelico - ‘Annunciation’ 1450
Picasso - ‘Guernica’ 1937
Joseph Beuys - ”7000 oaks’ 1982
Damien Hirst - ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ 1992
Olafur Eliasson - ‘The Weather Project’ 2003
  • MS: What question should be added to this list?
BS: What do you think happens when we die? 

 

Monday
Dec032007

Steph Raynor

 Matthew Stone interviews Steph Raynor.

Steph Raynor: Achieve the impossible, open all doors of perception - step through the threshold of enlightenment, free ourselves and minds through the power of art.

SR: Dark Angels, immortality, sacred philosophy and pleasure, symbolic art, the infinite divine spirit.

SR: No rules, Stay innocent, Embrace Experience, What’s in your head is more important than the external.

SR: Using Art’s power through political and radical change to penetrate and destroy mediocrity, transcending everything.

SR: Using life as Art, putting my heart and soul into it like a knife, getting far away from unhappy, dumbed down people, being defiantly different, searching for the disturbing, dangerous extraordinary and exquisite.

  • MS: What question should be added to this list?

SR: Are we anywhere near where we need to be?