The Serialist Quotes

“Anyway, that's all art school is. A big clusterfuck for rich poseurs. Who the fuck needs it? But it's a system, right? You have to go to the art schools to get into the galleries, to learn how to talk that bullshit. That's what they're learning, to talk bullshit.

The Serialist
David Gordon”
― David Gordon, The Serialist

“I tend to stumble through life as if lost in a deep forest with an out-of-date map that I can't figure out how to fold. The trees all look familiar, animals are making scary sounds in the bushes and the sandwich in my bag isn't what I ordered. No doubt I'm not alone in this.”
― David Gordon, The Serialist

“Once, on a sleepless night, I elaborated a whole theory of art predicated on simply reminding the ever-forgetful mind of the most basic truths: We float in water and revolve around the sun. We are born out of a woman's body and are made of meat and bone. One day, pretty soon, we will die.”
― David Gordon, The Serialist

“When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me, or at least to be so painfully aware of being me.”
― David Gordon, The Serialist

“What are other people to us? Material. The stuff of our work. Whom do we love more, the girl or the portrait, the thing we've made of her? We artists, we're not quite human, are we? We love no one.”
― David Gordon, The Serialist

“This was a new low, combining the perverse and the pathetic. Perthetic!”
― David Gordon, The Serialist

“This is the only boundary that nature herself imposes on us, the limitations on what we can accomplish, in space and time, with one body and one life.”
― David Gordon, The Serialist