The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
I don’t read for plot, a story ‘about’ this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object – it was the age of making gestures, not objects. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they’re quite dangerous. I don’t ride them anymore. But I have this history. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
It’s through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
I’m a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I’m happy that way. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn’t even have to mention them out loud to each other. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
