Quotes by Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith

All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn’t find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

Different

Media

Our Words

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one’s mastery of information and its dissemination.

Genius

Information

Mastery

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you’ve read what someone else has written.

Form

Written

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don’t interact. It’s a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

Opinion

Propaganda

Wonderful

For me, Twitter is a public persona. It’s UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don’t interact. It’s a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

Character

Tools

Use

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It’s truly free.

Anything Goes

Care

Economy

I don’t have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called “conceptual writing.” The idea is much more important than the product.

Ideas

Important

Writing

I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to be no risk and once a painter gets a strategy, very little exploration. As a result, I stopped thinking about painting a long time ago. I prefer forms of art that are more market-resistant, more idea-based, more – for lack of a better word – risky.

Art

New York

Thinking

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

Book

Fiction

Writing

I often don’t endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.

Important

Talking

Thinking

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Anything Goes

Art

Artist

Book

Care

Character

Cinema

Communication

Different

Dull

Economy

Ends

Expression

Fiction

Firsts

Form

Genius

Ideas

Important

Information

Inspire

Lines

Littles

Massive

Mastery

Media

Mold

New York

Novelists

Opinion

Our Words

Past

Propaganda

Song

Stories

Successful

Talking

Technology

Thinking

Today

Tools

Use

Want

Way

Wish

Wonderful

World

Writing

Written

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Quotes by Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith

All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn’t find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one’s mastery of information and its dissemination.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you’ve read what someone else has written.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don’t interact. It’s a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. It’s UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don’t interact. It’s a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It’s truly free.

I don’t have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called “conceptual writing.” The idea is much more important than the product.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

I often don’t endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.

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